Re: Remove 'htmlhelp' documentat format (was meson documentation build open issues)

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 10:46, Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> On 24.03.23 17:58, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2023-03-24 11:59:23 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Another option here is to remove support for htmlhelp.
> >
> > That might actually be the best path - it certainly doesn't look like
> anybody
> > has been actively using it. Or otherwise somebody would have complained
> about
> > there not being any instructions on how to actually compile a .chm file.
> And
> > perhaps complained that it takes next to forever to build.
> >
> > I also have the impression that people don't use the .chm stuff much
> anymore,
> > but that might just be me not using windows.
>
> I think in ancient times, pgadmin used it for its internal help.
>

Yes, very ancient :-). We use Sphinx now.

>
> But I have heard less about htmlhelp over the years than about the info
> format.
>
>
>

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