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Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118 |
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Mon, 1 Feb 2021 15:22:23 -0800 |
Yo Greg!
On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:50:47 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> >> Do you want to take over pseudo-developer outreach. Most people
> >> will just install the distro package(s). Most distros and some
> >> remaining users will build from a zip/tar file which has built man
> >> pages. Everyone else should know how much rope not to take.
> >
> > Consider that is a packager that raised the issue.
>
> I should say that I'm unclear on whether all the asciidoctoring is
> done when doing "scons dist", and if it entirely reliably won't try
> to run when doing build/install. The real requirement is that when
> someone takes a distributed tarball and does the build/install steps
> that they get man pages in the destdir/prefix they install to. Over
> the years I have seen schemes like this not quite work right and be
> painful.
Works for me. I do " scons -c && scons && scons dist".
That not work for you?
> Overall, unless a tool is painful (because it's in a non-portable
> language like Haskell or Java, which this isn't, or because it uses
> QT, which requires many hours of CPU time to build), I lean to just
> requiring the tool and keeping the world simpler.
I find installing AsciiDoctor on Raspberry Pi3 to be very painful.
No way I want that to be not possible.
RGDS
GARY
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- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, James Browning, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118,
Gary E. Miller <=
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/01
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/02
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Greg Troxel, 2021/02/03
- Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118, Gary E. Miller, 2021/02/03