Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

So, no action items left here?

On Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:30:41 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
> 
> >> >> Looks like hardware.html is not installed (which is ok,
> >> >> probably, and not about this) -- pkgsrc is not expecting it in
> >> >> the filesystem.    
> >> >
> >> > It is installed in gpsd-3.22.1~dev/www, as expected.  That is
> >> > where the GitLab web pages expect it.  So as intended and as
> >> > expected.    
> >> 
> >> "installed", as in put in the destdir by "scons install"?  Or just
> >> existing in the build directory?  It is not part ofthe pkgsrc
> >> pakcage because it has not showed up in the destdir after the
> >> install step.  
> >
> > hardware.html is "installed" as in put into the build directory:
> > gpsd-3.22.1~dev/www.  That is the final destination for the web
> > files. The only consumer of them is GitLab.
> >
> > It should not go in any package, or go to the destdir.  Users have
> > no use for the www files.  Only GitLab uses them.  
> 
> That's fine.  But that's not "installed", which is the step run by
> "make install" or equivalent that takes built things from the buidl
> dir and puts them in destdir.
> 
> > I guess some of the www files could go in /usr/share/gpsd.  But who
> > expects html there?  And what good would it be?  
> 
> If you want people to be able to read them offline, then they can be
> in $prefix/share/doc/gpsd/html or $prefix/share/doc/gpsd.   But I
> don't really care if they are installed or not - I was just trying to
> make sure the pkgsrc package wasn't leaving them out when you thought
> they were being put in destdir.
> 
> > One could make the argument that the web pages should be a separate
> > git repository.  NTPsec keeps www in a separate git repo.  But so
> > much of gpsd www is html colpies of the man apges that the separate
> > repo seems excessive to me.  
> 
> I agree that the (churn+work)/benefit ratio is too low.




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