FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:48:35PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
> We seem to be slowly sinking into dependancy hell for developers.  I'd
> like two things.

> a) there are three classes of users: general end users, developers, and
> maintainers.  Only maintainers should be required to have the
> documentation build tools.  I'd like to see doc builds off entirely unless
> the tools are found.

I think this should not be left entirely to autodetection.  Certainly,
when someone is rolling an official tarball for distribution, it should
be considered an error if the documentation-creating tools are absent.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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