[bt-devel] Committed English handbook pdf, r1829

Jonathan Marsden jmarsden at fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 17 15:26:14 MST 2009


Thomas Abthorpe wrote:

> Do we want to bundle it with the software? If no, we can remove it
> before we create the 2.4 tarball. If yes, obviously we let it be.

I'd prefer not, or I'll probably have to do extra work to create a 
special PDF-less tarball each time!  PDF is not the preferred source 
form of the information, so the PDF file should not be in a source 
tarball.  Just like object files are not in the source tarball.

Makefile rules to create the PDF *should* be there -- but not the PDF 
itself.  That way, if desired, we could create a PDF as part of the 
build process and put it in a bibletime-doc package or similar if it is 
too big to always be included (which it probably is, if we end up with 
many translated PDFs of the handbook!).

> Do we want to distribute the pdfs on the website?

That sounds like a much more useful way to go, to me.

Jonathan



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