Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: 2010-07-02 16:28:19
Message-ID: 1278088099.25901.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tor, 2010-07-01 at 22:08 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On tor, 2010-07-01 at 19:10 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this means that we don't want to have the PNG files in
> > > our SCM though, because it'd make the doc unbuildable for those
> > > without access to dia.
> >
> > Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the
> > other documentation build tools?
>
> No, but it is an additional requirement for diagrams that will rarely
> change.

I dispute that the diagrams will/should rarely change, and also that
changing rarely is an acceptable criterion for breaking the build
system.

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