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Re: Remove 'htmlhelp' documentat format (was meson documentation build open issues)

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-03-28T09:46:41Z
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On 24.03.23 17:58, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-03-24 11:59:23 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Another option here is to remove support for htmlhelp.
> 
> That might actually be the best path - it certainly doesn't look like anybody
> has been actively using it. Or otherwise somebody would have complained about
> there not being any instructions on how to actually compile a .chm file. And
> perhaps complained that it takes next to forever to build.
> 
> I also have the impression that people don't use the .chm stuff much anymore,
> but that might just be me not using windows.

I think in ancient times, pgadmin used it for its internal help.

But I have heard less about htmlhelp over the years than about the info 
format.

Commits

  1. docs: meson: Change what 'docs' target builds

  2. meson: Add 'world' target

  3. meson: Document build targets, add 'help' target

  4. meson: docs: Add {html,man} targets, rename install-doc-*

  5. docs: Document --with-selinux/-Dselinux options centrally

  6. meson: Change default of 'selinux' feature option to auto

  7. meson: Fix doc installation path computation

  8. meson: Install missing example files

  9. meson: docs: Install all manpages, not just ones in man1

  10. meson: docs: Allow configuring simple/website style

  11. docs: html: load stylesheet via custom.css.source

  12. docs: html: copy images to output as part of xslt build

  13. meson: docs: Preparatory cleanups

  14. docs: Remove support for 'htmlhelp' format

  15. meson: add install-{docs,doc-html,doc-man} targets

  16. meson: add install-{quiet, world} targets

  17. meson: make install_test_files more generic, rename to install_files

  18. meson: rename html_help target to htmlhelp