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29 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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31 Subject: Re: [PATCH] notmuch.pod: pod version of documentation,
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57 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:33:27 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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59 > I tried to look at it a couple of times, but it was already stale then
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60 > so I didn't look hard enough.
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62 > The couple of questions I have are:
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64 > * How close does the generated output match what we have today?
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66 Pretty close, I think. Essentially I just reformatted one or two places
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67 to make the online help easier to pull out of the man pages.
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69 > * What additional tools does this require for someone to build the
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70 > tree from the git repository?
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72 A recentish version of perl. 5.8.8 (2006) seems to have the utilities
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73 we'd need. I guess if people have git, they have perl. I guess in
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74 principle we could ship the pre-processed docs in a distribution
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77 > > Should I rebase/rebuild this against the current docs, or not bother?
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79 > I'd be interested in taking another look, if you're willing to take
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80 > another whack at it. I think that our command-line interface is changing
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81 > a lot more slowly such that this won't go immediately stale this time.
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83 Sure, I can have another go at it.
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