#1038: remove compiled documentation from Cactus repository --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: optional | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: documentation --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
LaTeX is not installed by default e.g. on Mac OSX, or maybe on some supercomputers where people may be trying their first steps.
Also, the question is not whether people can build the documentation, the question is how easy we can make it for people to begin reading the documentation.
All the arguments above argue that it is too much work for maintainers to ensure to rebuild the documentation after changing it, or handling documentation conflicts. I don't buy either of this; everybody making changes to the documentation will run latex anyway, and svn will then automatically suggest committing the new pdf. Having to handle conflicts in the pdf files is also very rare, and is very easy (same as above, everybody will run latex anyway just to check whether the merged latex sources still work).