Re: Doxygen has 3 RC bugs preventing packages to build - is droping documentation a sensible option?

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi,

2016-10-28 13:09 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> Hi,
>
> I really want to update cimg since a long time, missing several upstream
> releases but I cimg does not build due to #836168.  In the bug report it
> was also suggested to use sphinx as doxygen replacement but I'm not sure
> how sensible this might be since upstream is using doxygen.
>
> Since there is no real progress with doxygen (3 RC bugs no relevant
> trafic) I seriously consider droping the doxygen documentation for cimg
> at all and recommend users to live with the online documentation.  I do
> not consider this a good solution but if cimg will not be uploaded soon
> this will also affect opencv transition.
>
> What do you think about the "droping documentation since it breaks the
> package build" idea?

In a similar situation I worked around the issue and preprocessed the
broken latex input to fix the unescaped characters.

Cheers,
Balint