Re: PDF docs in CVS broken

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Robert Treat wrote:

> It's content we carry on the website, why wouldn't it be in the websites CVS
> tree?

Just doesn't seem like a candidate for being commited to CVS ... CVS, to
me, has always been for revision control ... the PDF is generated from the
sgml source, so I'd think that that would be the level that RevControl
would be maintained at ... with a PDF file (or any binary), there are no
"changes" from one revision to the next, so any revisions you might commit
would just check in a whole new version ...

If you look at the CVS side of things, 53Meg out of ~70Meg are the PDF
files:

gborg# du -sk www
69784 www
gborg# du -sk www/docs/pdf
53436 www/docs/pdf

That's a fair amount of space when its redundant to the sgml that its
generated by ...

> > Robert Treat
>
>
> On Friday 20 February 2004 15:36, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > stupid question, but is there a resaon why we have a PDF version of the
> > docs in CVS in the first place?
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 15:06, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > PDF docs for versions 7.3 and 7.4 were added to CVS without -kb switch
> > > > (binary) and thus are effectively broken. :[
> > >
> > > Broken is a strong word, I'd just say misconfigured. Looked through my
> > > command history on the 7.4 pdfs and noticed that the first one I uploaded
> > > I did use -kb but when I decided to rename the file I forgot it on the
> > > second pass (guess I should have gone to bed first...) Anywho, I *think*
> > > I have things updated to have the -kb flag, can you confirm this on your
> > > end?
> > >
> > > Robert Treat
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