Re: Cognitive dissonance

On Thursday 10. June 2010 17.24.00 Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400
2010:
> >> As I said back then, doing this is straightforward, but we kind of need
> >> more than one user who asks for it before we make it part of a regular
> >> service, which comes with maintenance costs.
>
> > Hey, count me as another interested person in a single-file plain-text
> > doc output format.
>
> Well, there are two separate things here:
>
> * providing a Makefile target to build plain-text output.
>
> * shipping prebuilt plain text docs in standard distributions.
>
> I am for #1, not so much for #2, mainly on the grounds of size. But
> given #1 it would be possible for packagers to make their own choices
> about whether to include plain-text docs.

Wouldn't it suffice to make it downloadable, like the pdf doc?

regards,
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Leif Biberg Kristensen
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