Re: [PATCH liburing 0/3] Convert manpages to markdown

[Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>]

Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi, Gabriel,
>
> Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> writes:
>
>> This obviously adds a build dependency on pandoc, which is already
>> packaged by any sane distro out there.  The configure file is updated to
>> check for that.
>
> I guess RHEL is not a sane distribution, then.  :)  pandoc was abandoned
> in favor of ghc-pandoc, and RHEL does not ship a haskell compiler.

Oh, that is a bummer!

> It would make RHEL packaging considerably easier if the generated man
> pages continued to be part of the upstream git tree.  If that's not
> acceptable, then I can work around the problem, but it will be a pain.

I suppose we'll have to keep them in-tree, no way around that.
RHEL is unlikely to be the only problematic distro.

The question is whether we want to do the md conversion at all and have
both in-tree or just drop this entirely.  On the bright side, Markdown
is much easier to write, but duplicating the sources can make them go
out of sync.

> At the very least, please make generation of the man pages optional
> via configure.

> Thanks!
> Jeff
>

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi