[bt-devel] Committed English handbook pdf, r1829

[Thomas Abthorpe]

Point well taken, it was my concern that I could easily bloat the
tarball with 6 to 8 translations.

I will back out the commit and make the pdf available other ways.

Thanks for the feedback.


Thomas

On 17/11/2009, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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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