Re: Documentation in the tarball?

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 02:25:49PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Does it make sense to include all developer documentation into the
> tarball? As an alternative, only user documentation, plus a notice
> where to find the developer docs, could be included, while the rest
> can only be found in the repository at hg.dillo.org. I assume that
> someone who is interested in the internals of dillo will anyway refer
> to the lastest version from the Hg repository.
> 
> Keeping it out of the tarball would have advantages:
> 
> - It makes the tarball smaller.
> 
> - We developers would not have to think that much about file sizes of
>   the documentation: these files do not go into the tarball; and for
>   those using the lastest version from the Hg repository, it should be
>   reasonable to spend some more disc space.
> 
> What do you think?

  One disadvantage is no longer having both synced in the same
tarball.

  Now, if docs live in the same hg repo as sources, but just don't
make it into the tarball, I see no problems. They are kept in sync for
devs, and the tarball goes smaller, in which case I do agree.

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-
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