Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: 2010-07-02 18:22:21
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.1007021521050.45189@hub.org
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jul 01 21:52:00 -0400 2010:
>>> Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the
>>> other documentation build tools?
>
>> Err, I dunno -- it's just an apt-get away for me, but what will Tom say
>> when it doesn't work on his ancient HP-UX 10.20 system?
>
> I don't try to build the docs on that box anyway --- it does have
> openjade but such an old version that they don't build. In practice
> building the docs already takes much more modern infrastructure than
> compiling the source code; and besides there are many fewer people
> who care about doing it.
>
> A more interesting question is whether Marc can install a working
> version of dia on whatever he uses to wrap the tarballs.

that shouldn't be an issue ... Peter runs an update every 3 hours on that
machine right now as it is ...

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