Documentation

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Jan 28 23:21:55 UTC 2004


Myk Melez wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
>> I'm more concerned about this con. Can we mitigate it? We certainly 
>> don't want to require people to set up a docs build environment; it's  
>> a real pain.
> 
> I'm not sure how true that is anymore.  My Fedora Core 1 installation 
> comes with everything needed except for the LDP stylesheet and three 
> shell variables that could probably be set automatically by the script.  
> Oh, and lynx, which is easily installed.

But no build tools are required to 'build' the rest of Bugzilla. :-)

I think even CVS checker-outers should be able to view documentation as 
something that is just there, rather than something they have to work to 
get.

Gerv



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