Re: Building and cleaning the manual in advi
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:53:04PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:47:48PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Hello Sven,
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > > > > > get it. For the man page I don't remember the exact error, but the
> > > > > > only difference between the source and the final man page is one
> > > > > > substituted variable with the version. Essentially, we have two
> > > > > > options:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > a) Patch the source to remove the variable (I would do this, as the
> > > > > > man page was written for a certain version, but of course this
> > > > > > requires updating whenever a new upstream tar ball changes the
> > > > > > version).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > b) Run the source through sed or similar, i.e., automatically replace
> > > > > > the version with the version of advi we are building. This could be
> > > > > > achieved by a patched Makefile for the man page. Of course, this
> > > > > > might mislead readers into thinking that the man page always fully
> > > > > > applies to the latest version.
> > > > >
> > > > > That would be easy enough.
> > > >
> > > > I can implement this.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > > I can do a build this WE and upload, if you feel like it, you splitted the
> > > packages anyway, so it will need NEW handling anyway, which may or may not
> > > take forever.
> >
> > But do not load up exactly as in SVN first check for FIXMEs (there are
> > three) and resolve them as you see fit. (The man page one you already
> > decided, but you might leave it to indicate the work to do).
>
> Notice that since we split the packages, we will have to go through NEW, so
> the earlier we do the better, even though all is not yet perfect.
>
> I will sort these issues before uploading though, and thanks for the
> tremendous job you did on this.
BTW, i am looking it over, but will not be able to finish this evening, will
have to wait for it tomorrow. BTW, htmlc is a html generator program written
by Pierre Weiss :
http://pauillac.inria.fr/htmlc/
And it is under the old INRIA licence which is non-free. I will speak with
Pierre next week and see if he may be willing to change the licence. Remember
me the other issues i would need to ask him about regarding advi ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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