Re: [AC] [PACKAGES (ecb)] Only build HTML docs with the explicit
'html' target.
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Steve Youngs wrote:
|--==> "VS" == Ville Skytt <Ville> writes:
VS> On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 16:56, Steve Youngs wrote:
>>APPROVE COMMIT
>>
>>Hi Klaus!
>>
>>As this was just a patch to the Makefile, I have committed it.
VS> Ouch, I was planning to mail you about this, but you beat me to it :(
VS> Anyway, if I've understood correctly, an installed ECB as it is
VS> now depends on the availability of the HTML docs.
Ew, yuck. Any special reason for this, could it not just depend on
the TeXinfo docs instead?
VS> I'm not vetoing this, but Klaus should be able to provide more
VS> details about the problem.
ecb-help.el seems to be where it's at, and it looks to me that we're
OK because the default help format is set to "info". Is that right,
Klaus? ECB will still function correctly in the absence of the HTML
docs, won't it?
Yes, it would. The HTML-docs are shipped and integrated for convenience if a
user likes HTML-browsing more than info-browsing ;-)
The option ecb-show-help-format defines which docs-format is used by the
command ecb-show-help (with a prefix arg you can always choose your
docs-format).
To make a long story short: ECB checks if the chosen help-format is
available, if not it just complains with a message that it can't find the
doc-files - should not be a problem for a user - the info-files are available.
But: IMHO it would be very good if XEmacs-packages could be shipped and build
with HTML-support - the package-system should be prepared to support such
HTML-support.
Ciao,
Klaus
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