On Thu, 06 Oct 2016, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@infradead.org> wrote: > Em Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:21:36 +0300 > Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> escreveu: >> We've seen what happens when we make it easy to add random scripts to >> build documentation. We've worked hard to get rid of that. In my books, >> one of the bigger points in favor of Sphinx over AsciiDoc(tor) was >> getting rid of all the hacks required in the build. Things that broke in >> subtle ways. > > I really can't see what scripts it get rids.
Really? You don't see why the DocBook build was so fragile and difficult to maintain? That scares me a bit, because then you will not have learned why we should at all costs avoid adding random scripts to produce documentation. The DocBook build was designed by Rube Goldberg, and this video accurately illustrates how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w I don't want the Sphinx build to end up like that. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
