Subject: Proposal: new doc module in the CVS repository
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:52:54 +0100
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 22:38 -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 4/24/10, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Well, I don't think the translations of the manual should be moved.
> They do enter into the build process (make dist-gzip builds the
> translations as well as en), and anyway all versions of the manual
> should be kept together.
>
> I can imagine that all the manual files could be moved but that
> would require reworking the build machinery accordingly.
> If you want to work out the details, I would be interested to
> hear about it.
Of course, the lines that build the translations in the Makefile.am
would also be moved to the new location.
Those who wanted to use options such as --enable-lang-pt-utf8 in config,
would have to download the translations module and run make in that
directory. Instead of having just one tarball and one rpm, we would have
additional ones for pt, es, ru, ko, etc. that would be installed on top
of the basic one with one English.
> I'm not opposed to moving the archive directory.
> If it is moved, I recommend the name maxima-archive.
OK.
> My recommendation is to create a new module maxima-doc and
> commit the book there. We can migrate other documents into that
> directory.
That was my recommendation too, in the initial message of this thread,
but you were opposed to it :)
Since nobody else has complained, I will then go ahead and do it.
Cheers,
Jaime