Hi Manuel, hi all,
On So, 03 Jan 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Just changing to
>
> support_zipped = true
>
> in constants.tlu should work.
Indeed it does, but you need to change the viewers. The automatically
selected ones (gnome-open in my case) return immediately, thus the
temp file will be removed and all gone.
In the Debian package I uploaded today I use 0.61 of texdoc, set in
constants.tlu the support_zipped = true, and use
(see %s) &
as viewer for all types.
That works nicely.
> As a user of this pseudo-option, wdyt?
> Then, as Norbert points out, upstream TL doesn't ship compressed doc, so it is
> sort of useless code here. OTOH, I shouldn't hurt to enable it here.
>
> The real problem is that it doesn't work on windows, and I don't really want
> to
> spend time making it work here, since AFAIK it is not used in this context.
> So I
> feel a little bit incomfortable about activating something that cannot work
> cross-platform (since texdoc obviously tries to be cross-platform).
I would suggest to:
- turn it into a normal option
- document it in texdoc.cnf cleanly
- mention that the automatically selected viewers will most probably
not work (gnome-open immediately returns, and I assume the same for
kde-open etc)
- *but* leave it disabled under normal circumstances
That does not change much (but the making the option a real one, which
in fact is already prepared, becasue there are parts where you check
for C.support_zipped!!), does not add incompatibilities to upstream
TeX Live, and allows distributions (where they can select a decent viewer)
to activate it by simply changing texdoc.cnf.
> Norbert, please don't hesitate to ask me if you think something should be
> changed in texdoc (or its documentation).
Well, there is no documentation of it, at least none that I grasped
that it has to be directly in constants.tlu ;-) See my suggestion
from above.
> Unrelated, but I'm glad to hear that TL09 should soon hit testing (hence be in
> the next stable). Fingers crossed.
Yup, if not another RC bug had to be fixed we probably would already be
there. BTW: The telxive packages currently in unstable already have
the above changes ;-)
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One more thing: I was a bit puzzled that texdoc does not look into
TEXMFSYSCONFIG or TEXMFCONFIG /texdoc/texdoc.cnf
In upstream texlive that would be
.../2009/texmf-config (TEXMFSYSCONFIG)
~/.texlive2009/texmf-config (TEXMFCONFIG)
on Debian it would be
/etc/texmf (TEXMFSYSCONFIG)
~/.texlive/texmf-config (TEXMFCONFIG)
Best wishes
Norbert
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