I tweaked things when I brought cmake over so that it wouldn't insist on having
a README.txt there, but of course it'd be good to have something better than the
generic one that comes packaged with cmake.
Could we get a line added to the "official" docs and changelog that experimental
CMake support is in, with a link to the archives of this list and I spose the
boost-cmake wiki pages?
-t
Daniel James wrote:
2008/11/2 Daniel James <daniel_ja...@fmail.co.uk>:
2008/11/2 Beman Dawes <bda...@acm.org>:
Unless README.txt can be updated automatically, it is going to be a
maintenance problem for release managers.
The release announcement is a quickbook file, so it should be possible
to generate a plain text file from it (or if that's too tricky we
could use lynx to generate text from html, it does a reasonable job).
Sorry, I'm just getting to this now. Generating plain text from
quickbook is actually quite tricky. There doesn't seem to be any
solutions for generating plain text from docbook. I had a go at
converting Rene's bbook2rss script to generate text, with reasonable
results, but don't fancy maintaining it. So I think using lynx is the
way to go. I've just checked a small php page into the beta site that
will display the release announcement in plain html, so that lynx can
generate a text file from it. The command line to do this is:
lynx -dump -nolist
http://beta.boost.org/users/history/minimal.php/version_1_37_0 >
README.txt
I've attached the output for 1.37. Does it seem okay? Is there
anything else I should add? Maybe some extra text at the start.
Beman, would it be possible for you to install lynx and add the
appropriate command to your release scripts? If you can't, I could
generate this file along with the documentation. I expect we'll need
to set this up for 1.38 since the cmake files are included in the
release.
Daniel
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