[Development] Making docs being built for every module

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 6 de junho de 2013 18.51.44, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:07:06PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez 
Meyer wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 June 2013 08:58:53 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > On quinta-feira, 6 de junho de 2013 17.57.08, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > > for the packagers, it would be the best solution to simply include the
> > > > docs directly into the particular source tarballs.
> > > 
> > > The drawback is a major increase in the size of those tarballs.
> 
> hmm, yeah. what are the numbers?

Back in Qt 4 days, the increase for the full document set was about 60-70 MB. 
After compression (the QCH file doesn't compress well, and the HTML help files 
compress to the size of the QCH file).

> > And some of us would be required to re generate in order to asset that
> > we can build it from source, so it wouldn't help a lot.
> 
> that seems like absurd puritanism to me. are you also required to run
> autoconf even though each source tarball contains a pre-made configure?
> also, some time ago, qt didn't come with all the sources, so you were
> forced to use pre-generated artificats. did you refuse to ship that?

I agree here.

You have the option and the ability to rebuild from sources if you need to, 
but you don't have to. You don't need to re-generate cross-platform pre-
generated files. I recommend simply accepting the pre-built documentation.

However, tarballs where the "preferred form for making modifications" isn't 
present are in violation of OSS licenses and, in specific, the DFSG.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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