Re: Figures in docs

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: peter_e@gmx.net, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2016-02-18T01:23:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>> What's wrong with LibreOffice?
> 
> Is there any reason to think it doesn't have the same disease mentioned
> in the previously-cited thread, namely that any change trashes pretty
> much the whole file?
> 
> That might be okay for things that we only change once every ten years
> or so, but otherwise it would be very git-history-unfriendly.
> 
> It's possible that we could solve that with some sort of SVG normalizer
> (think pgindent for SVG) that we're careful to use before committing.
> But I'm afraid that we'd still have issues with significantly different
> output from different versions of LibreOffice, for example.

Do we really need git history for each figure? It seems we are waiting
for a solution which will never realize.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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