Questions regarding asciidoc requirement to compile/install

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Mon Jun 10 18:44:01 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 01:23 +0200, stebs at gmx.de wrote:
>> For the Qt Branch, make aborts because I do not have asciidoc installed.
>> The problem about this is: on my relatively fresh installed Ubuntu
>> (actually Xubuntu), "sudo apt-get install asciidoc" wants to install a
>> whopping 1 GB of packages needed for ascidoc:
>
> Woot. Only a Gigabyte...

TeX's a beast.

>
>> > Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
>> >   asciidoc dblatex docbook-dsssl docbook-utils docbook-xsl
>> > fonts-lmodern fonts-texgyre jadetex latex-beamer latex-xcolor
>> >   libgraphite3 libosp5 libostyle1c2 libptexenc1 libruby1.9.1
>> > libsgmls-perl libsp1c2 libyaml-0-2 lmodern luatex lynx
>> >   lynx-cur openjade pgf preview-latex-style prosper ps2eps ruby
>> > ruby1.9.1 sgmlspl sp tcl8.6 tex-common tex-gyre texlive
>> >   texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-common
>> > texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils
>> >   texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended
>> > texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended
>> >   texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra
>> > texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
>> >   texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-math-extra
>> > texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks
>> >   texlive-pstricks-doc tipa tk8.6 ttf-marvosym xmlto xsltproc
>> > 0 aktualisiert, 62 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht
>> > aktualisiert.
>> > Es müssen noch 678 MB von 678 MB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
>> > Nach dieser Operation werden 1.064 MB Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
>> Imho that is a bit of overkill (I just want to try the dev-versions out
>> of curiosity)...
>> So maybe when asciidoc is not installed, there should be simply a
>> warning and subsurface should compile without local documentation?
>
> At this stage the Qt version is not well enough tested (nor is it
> feature complete) so I don't think this really is useful for anyone
> except for the people working on the code.
>
> Yes, possibly we could make asciidoc optional, but frankly, we have
> intentionally decided not to make things optional. My though is that
> we'll have the docs simply included in the built version, but I don't
> want to walk away from the need to have a complete set of tools and
> components.
>
> /D
>
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