[darcs-users] darcs 2.3 beta 1

[Trent W. Buck]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:22:58PM +0200, Petr Rockai wrote:
> trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
> > The doc/ directory is also absent, so I am also getting this Q/A error:
> >
> >     E: darcs: doc-base-file-references-missing-file darcs-doc:
> >        /usr/share/doc/darcs/manual/darcs.html
> >        /usr/share/doc/darcs/manual/*.html
> >        /usr/share/doc/darcs/manual.pdf.gz
> >
> > Will the final Hackage package include pre-rendered and/or source files
> > for the user manual?
> I hope so! : - ) Patches welcome (I don't have the slightest idea what needs to
> be fixed... The manual has to be built as part of the build process, we cannot
> include non-primary sources with cabal...).

The user manual is still built (from .tex and .lhs to .html and .pdf)
by the autoconf infrastructure (sorry!).

Historically Eric has included pre-rendered .html and .pdf files in
the source tarballs, so that users can install the manuals without
needing to get a whole TeX environment up and running.

I kinda assumed that we'd keep doing that, at least until Cabal can
build the user manual all by itself.