Hi Brian, On Sun, 22 Jan 2017, brian m. carlson wrote:
> There are two major processors of AsciiDoc: AsciiDoc itself, and > Asciidoctor. Both have advantages and disadvantages, but traditionally > the documentation has been built with AsciiDoc, leading to some > surprising breakage when building with Asciidoctor. Partially, this is > due to the need to specify a significant number of macros on the command > line when building with Asciidoctor. > > This series cleans up some issues building the documentation with > Asciidoctor and provides two knobs, USE_ASCIIDOCTOR, which controls > building with Asciidoctor, and ASCIIDOCTOR_EXTENSIONS_LAB, which > controls the location of the Asciidoctor Extensions Lab, which is > necessary to expand the linkgit macro. I like it. I reviewed all the patches and think they are good (except the XSLT patch, which made me just feel incompetent because I do not know enough to have an opinion about it). > The need for the extensions could be replaced with a small amount of > Ruby code, if that's considered desirable. Previous opinions on doing > so were negative, however. Quite frankly, it is annoying to be forced to install the extensions. I would much rather have the small amount of Ruby code in Git's repository. Thanks, Johannes
