[elephant-devel] Documentation / Backends

[Ian Eslick]

I think DLL files in the release (it's only 3 files) with a flag for  
'build your own'.  Putting docs in a separate tarball seems fine,  
that makes it easier to identify when they were built, etc.  I don't  
think there's a need for anyone to build them other than the  
developers so we don't need to worry about the doc build process  
being super easy.

Thanks for the linux/sbcl testing - that's great news!

On Mar 24, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Scribit Ian Eslick dies 24/03/2007 hora 12:19:
>> Also, the new manual will be available online in texinfo-tree form, a
>> single HTML file and in PDF.  I'm happy to take your suggestion and
>> supply a pre-build version of all these files in the distribution and
>> source control.
>
> FWIW, I think the less built files in the version control the better.
> Apart from bootstrapping purpose, they better be released separately,
> I'd say.
>
> Having them as separate tarballs or single files on the project's
> website is enough, I think.
>
>> There is also a manual procedure to  do this in other lisps that I
>> will document in the Install section of  the new manual.
>
> I never managed to build the docs, so if you fixed that, that's good
> news. I tried again, but I bothered that it needs that Elephant be
> successfully compiled for BDB. If I never use BDB (and it was the case
> when I used Elephant previously), I'd like the doc to be buildable
> without having to install and setup BDB...
>
> On the other hand, maybe that's not a big deal as long as we provide
> already built documentation.
>
> Separately,
> Pierre
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