Re: documentation is now XML

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Liudmila Mantrova <l(dot)mantrova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: documentation is now XML
Date: 2018-04-27 15:36:40
Message-ID: 27028.1524843400@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 11:00:36AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> 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? I thought people building current Postgres would already
> have the XML toolchain built to build older release documentation.

Yeah, in principle, anyone who's able to build the v10 branch's docs
should be ready for such a change. We had discussed polling the
pgsql-packagers list to see whether anyone would have a problem with
changing the docs build toolset for the pre-v10 branches, but I don't
think we actually asked them.

regards, tom lane

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