RE: [Axiom-developer] Ping: file removals

[Bill Page]

On November 5, 2006 2:03 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> 
> > > | generated documentation files:
> > > | 
> > > |  src/doc/bookvol1.pdf
> > > 
> > > this call is slighlty harder.  We don't generate PDFs at 
> > > the moment (but we should), and this is a copy of a book
> > > already published.  So the question is how "authentic" we
> > > want the copy in SVN to be. Personnaly, I would go for its
> > > complete deletion, augment the build machinery to generate
> > > PDF for documentation.  (I'm planning to put in the PDF
> > > generation anyway).
> > 

I agree. In general there should not be any pdf files in the source
code repository.

> ...
> Additionaly we can provide .pdf on Axiom web site. 

See http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/axiom--test--1/src/doc/Bookvol1

> 
> One extra remark:  It make sense to put generated documentation
> into distribution tarball, but IMHO generated files (with the 
> exception of files needed to bootstrap) should be removed from
> source archive.

Yes, I agree completely.

> ...

Regards,
Bill Page.