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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How can one disable....
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-03-23 9:45:22
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:33:47AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > David Faure wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 01:20:19AM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > No.  I don't have any of the doc stuff installed, and I really don't
> > > > > > desire to.  Perhaps configure should check for the presence of kdb2html
> > > > > > first before enabling the "compilation" of the doc directory.
> > > > >
> > > > > No. You should be killed for not wanting documentation :)
> > > > >
> > > > > As ksgmltools goes into kdelibs, we will create a dummy script to output
> > > > > "you fucking moron - install jade or you will be damned to hell" ;)
> > > >
> > > > Uh?  AFAIK, Jade had and perhaps still has issues with the current
> > > > compiler that FreeBSD uses (actually I thought it was an egcs/gcc 2.9x
> > > > issue).  I dunno, all I know is that Jade was a hassle to install.  What
> > > > ever happened to separating documentation from the rest of the source.
> > > > It takes me enough fucking time to get stuff to compile without having to
> > > > deal with documentation, and its massive dependencies.
> > >
> > > I think Alex has a point here.
> > > We don't want doc to be silently dismissed because we don't want
> > > distributors to forget about it, but OTOH we shouldn't make it
> > > more complex for developers.
> > >
> > > What about a HUGE FAT warning at configure time saying:
> > > "You don't have jade, no doc will be generated, make sure that's
> > > what you want", and disabling docs for those developers that
> > > don't want it, or have trouble with jade...
> > >
> > That's what I was saying, didn't I? I would even create a dummy index.html then
> Ooohh - indeed, I realise that now.
> I thought you were saying it had to be installed
> ("go to hell", as in, you can't compile KDE ;-)
> 
> Ok, then, seems everybody agrees. :)
> 
> I'll copy the stuff over. All of ksgmltools, I suppose ?
> Towards kdelibs/ksgmltools ?
> 
Would say so

Greetings, Stephan

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