Re: [Savannah-hackers] problems with GNU wget website

[Mauro Tortonesi]

Alle 00:00, giovedì 9 dicembre 2004, Sylvain Beucler ha scritto:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:40:54PM +0100, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> > BTW, i would like to add a manual section to the GNU wget
> > website. is there a way to automatically trigger the generation of a
> > documentation page like this one:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/manual/
> >
> > at each commit starting from a texinfo source? it would be REALLY
> > great...
>
> In the current setup, this is far from easy. The generation could be
> done using the CVS commitinfo facility; however, each repository in
> currently in a dedicated root with the lowest amount of programs (cvs
> and a binary version of log_accum).
>
> The usefulness and maintainability of this architecture can be
> questionnable, and does not permit to install Texinfo. It is an
> interesting idea, but I am afraid we have to fix some other parts of
> the system first. I'll add this to our tasks list, though.

don't worry about that. it's just that i've never liked the idea of including 
automatically generated files in a cvs repository, since it is really a 
nightmare to maintain.

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Mauro Tortonesi

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