Tools for the HTML manuals
Robert Graham Merkel
rgmerk@mira.net
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:52:26 +1000 (EST)
Christopher Browne writes:
> Should we have HTML, or SGML in the source tree? is the question.
>
> - If both, then there is the risk that someone may modify the HTML,
> and then watch it get overwritten the next time someone upstream runs
> "make," and builds fresh HTML.
>
> - If only SGML, then that forces anyone that gets a CVS archive
> to add yet another component to those that they install.
>
And the people who will scream most loudly are those who are trying to
build gnucash on anything other than Linux or *BSD, as they will
probably have to build those components themselves.
While I would prefer to have only SGML in the source tree, I suspect
we may have to live with both. Dave can comment when he gets back.
> I'm liable to generate something complex enough to be worth
> looking at closely, but won't be doing anything _bizarrely_
> complex.
Cool, we'll save that for if and when we corbify the engine . . .
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