Making documentation - was RE: Docu updates question..

[Vincent Béron]

Le sam 09/11/2002 à 23:01, Vincent Béron a écrit :
> Le sam 09/11/2002 à 22:38, Dustin Navea a écrit :
> > Sounds to me like we need a config check to see if db2html exists and if
> > docbook2html exists, and if neither do, then it spits out a warning that you
> > will not be able to build documentation until one is installed...  Alexandre,
> > you wanna take this one?
> 
> That was something I wanted to do. But I just checked on my system, and
> docbook2html and db2html don't do exactly the same thing. db2html has
> more setup in it: creates an output directory, puts some images in a
> subdir, and call jw with an output dir. docbook2html, OTOH, only calls
> jw, without stating an output directory.
> (jw is a wrapper for jade, which is the real worker in docbook
> conversions)
> 
> Keep in mind that that's on my system; I haven't checked how other
> distros setup docbook-utils (and why sometimes only one of the two is
> available).

(Sorry for answering to my own post)

Or, we could pursue the route of db2html-winehq, which is to directly
call jade rather than a wrapper.

Vincent