Re: ✘asciidoc vs asciidoctor, issue #118

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo James!

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:11:30 -0800
James Browning <jamesb.fe80@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, 8:54 AM Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
> >  
> > > Yo Sanjeev!
> > >
> > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:15:31 +0800
> > > Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  
> > >>    1. Default should be no man building  
> > >
> > > People complain when I change the defaults.  So it has to be for
> > > a good reason.  
> >
> > Sanjeev's proposed default makes no sense to me.  Man pages are
> > part of a package and a build without man pages is deficient.
> >  
> 
> Do you want to take over pseudo-developer outreach. Most people will
> just install the distro package(s). Most distros and some remaining
> users will build from a zip/tar file which has built man pages.
> Everyone else should know how much rope not to take.

Consider that is a packager that raised the issue.


RGDS
GARY
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