Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:08:45AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 02/03/2015 08:55 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> >>>On 02/02/2015 05:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>>>I share the sentiment that the release notes *seem* too big, but the
> >>>>subsequent discussion shows that it's not clear why that's really a
> >>>>problem. Exactly what problem are we trying to fix?
> >>>At a rough count of lines, the release notes for unsupported versions
> >>>are about 18% of documentation overall (47K out of 265K lines). So
> >>>they're not insubstantial. Compared to the total size of the tarball,
> >>>though ...
> >>It would not make that much of a difference in tarball size, agreed.
> >>It *would* make a difference in the build time and output size of the
> >>SGML docs --- as I mentioned at the outset, the release notes currently
> >>account for 25% of the SGML source linecount.
> >I run `make -s -j4 world` on my i7 fairly often, and it is often
> >the doc build that I wind up waiting for at the end.
>
> I realize this is slightly OT, but I wonder if it might be worth having
> targets that build and install everything but the docs.

That'd be great.

Cheers,
David.
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