On 4/27/18 11:03, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:00:36AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> On 4/23/18 05:54, Liudmila Mantrova wrote: >>> Reading this thread, I got an impression that everyone would benefit >>> from converting back branches to XML, but the main concern is lack of >>> resources to complete this task. Are there any other issues that affect >>> this decision? Looks like Aleksander Lakhin's offer to prepare patches >>> was missed somehow as the discussion sidetracked to other issues >> >> That proposal seemed to indicate not only converting the source code to >> XML but also the build system to XSL. The latter is out of the >> question, I think. > > Why is that? Because there would be a thousand lines of tooling changes to be backported and thousands of pages of documentation to be checked manually that it doesn't create a mess (times branches times platforms).
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