Re: documentation is now XML

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 03:20:44PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 4/27/18 11:03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:00:36AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> On 4/23/18 05:54, Liudmila Mantrova wrote:
> >>> Reading this thread, I got an impression that everyone would benefit
> >>> from converting back branches to XML, but the main concern is lack of
> >>> resources to complete this task. Are there any other issues that affect
> >>> this decision? Looks like Aleksander Lakhin's offer to prepare patches
> >>> was missed somehow as the discussion sidetracked to other issues
> >>
> >> That proposal seemed to indicate not only converting the source code to
> >> XML but also the build system to XSL. The latter is out of the
> >> question, I think.
> >
> > Why is that?
> Because there would be a thousand lines of tooling changes to be
> backported and thousands of pages of documentation to be checked
> manually that it doesn't create a mess (times branches times platforms).

Oh, OK.

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