Making KDocTools independent of KArchive

[Kevin Ottens]

On Tuesday 24 September 2013 13:48:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimarts, 24 de setembre de 2013, a les 08:49:20, Kevin Ottens va 
escriure:
> > On Monday 23 September 2013 13:09:05 Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> > > Maybe we can use a third-party docbook-to-manpage conversion tool. On
> > > Linux
> > > it would be easy to install, and on Windows it wouldn't be needed
> > > ("what's
> > > a manpage?"). And still leave it optional everywhere...
> > 
> > Thats a very good question. Maybe in that case kdoctools is indeed
> > overkill. Someone would have to investigate if something else could be
> > used though.
> That's really weird, we have a solution that works, and you want to use
> something else?
> 
> What does that gives us?
> 
> That stuff in kde now depends in two docbook-to-manpage conversion tools
> instead of one?
> 
> Are you sure that's an improvement?

Well, as highlighted we have a dependency issue there, so it's either:
 1) no docbook in tier 1 and tier 2 frameworks;
 2) we use a different docbook to manpage tool for tier 1 and tier 2 
frameworks.

Pick your poison. But we can't keep said dependency issue.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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