Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Robert Haas wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >>>> OK, everyone seems to like requiring dia.
> >>>
> >>> I don't like it a bit. It's hard enough for people to build the docs as
> >>> it is.
> >>
> >> Why should anyone build the docs? Its part of the tarball process, so the
> >> only ppl that should be doing it are those coming from CVS, no ... ?
> >
> > People often built them to verify the SGML markup and to view the
> > content/markup before submitting a doc patch.
>
> Good point ... so, part of the Makefile should be modified for a flag to
> disable dia build? "make NO_DIA=yes" ? Or, maybe have it default to NO
> and for the tarball build, I'd modify the script for building it?

I am afraid if we don't enable dia by default then we will end up with
production documentation without images. I think we have to default dia
to on, and give a reasonable error when it doesn't exist, and mention
how to turn it off.

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