On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:08:45AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > On 02/03/2015 08:55 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > >Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >>Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > >>>On 02/02/2015 05:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >>>>I share the sentiment that the release notes *seem* too big, but the > >>>>subsequent discussion shows that it's not clear why that's really a > >>>>problem. Exactly what problem are we trying to fix? > >>>At a rough count of lines, the release notes for unsupported versions > >>>are about 18% of documentation overall (47K out of 265K lines). So > >>>they're not insubstantial. Compared to the total size of the tarball, > >>>though ... > >>It would not make that much of a difference in tarball size, agreed. > >>It *would* make a difference in the build time and output size of the > >>SGML docs --- as I mentioned at the outset, the release notes currently > >>account for 25% of the SGML source linecount. > >I run `make -s -j4 world` on my i7 fairly often, and it is often > >the doc build that I wind up waiting for at the end. > > I realize this is slightly OT, but I wonder if it might be worth having > targets that build and install everything but the docs.
That'd be great. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
