[Gimp-docs] Installing GIMP help files

[Roman Joost]

Hi,

sorry for not replying earlier. Just had a teeth surgery and need a bit
of time to relax.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:53:40AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:33 -0500, Mark Beihoffer wrote:
> > Thanks for the response - unfortunately, this did not work for me.
> > 
> > I've tried to locate the HTML files, but all the files in the package
> > I downloaded are XML files, not HTML files.
> 
> I am sorry, it looks like the content of the help package changed and I
> did not notice this change.
Actually I'm puzzled. Because the last release also haven't had any
pre-built HTML files and on a first thought I'm very sorry of this.

But on a second thought and a check at the Makefile I think we never
released the manual as pre-built HTML files, but always as a source
release. The reason for doing is because the distributors always created
their own packages, seperated by languages.

> This is pretty bad. We used to ship pre-built HTML files in the release
> tarballs. The installation instructions in the file INSTALL also still
> refer to this situation.
That's why I'm kind of confused. The past releases (prior to 2.4.1) are
made one year ago and I can't say for sure how we did it. The built
system changed to often ...

> So they are pretty much wrong now. Roman, is
> this an intentional change? Shouldn't at least INSTALL be adjusted then?
I'll investigate this further soon as I'm feeling confortable.

As for the situation of Mark currently have: either we fix the
built-system and do another release of the 2.4.2 tag or we fix the
built-system to support OpenBSD (probably faster).


Greetings,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski at gimp.org
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