On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:52:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 02:50 schrieb Tom Lane: > >> That's fine for users, but what new demands are you about to place on > >> developers? Does this require tools not already needed in order to > >> build from a CVS pull? (There's sure no xsltproc on this machine...) > > > It is to be expected that sooner or later we'll move from SGML to XML > > documentation builds, at which point xsltproc will become a > > semi-requirement > > anyway. I don't think this requirement is too onerous; libxslt is portable > > and easy to install. > > Forgot to mention, but: I don't find the above argument very convincing. > The buildfarm machines are not expected to build documentation, and many > developers seem not to have installed doc tools either. So I think this > would be raising the bar another notch in terms of what's required to do > development or testing, even if it does overlap with docs-build needs.
>From what I've seen it's not terribly difficult to install some sort of XSLT processor now-a-days. It's certainly less involved than installing docbook in any case. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
