Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log -> .html conversion?

[Stefano Lattarini]

Reference:
  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-01/msg00005.html>

On 01/05/2012 11:14 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>
>> So, in conclusion, here is my simple proposal:
>>
>>  1. We deprecate the support for HTML testsuite output in the documentation 
>> of
>>     the 1.11.3 release.
>>
>>  2. In the 1.12 release, we remove it from the automake core, providing 
>> instead
>>     (in the automake tarball) an "extra" `.am' fragment that can offer a 
>> similar
>>     (and hopefully completely equivalent) functionality.
>>
>> Opinions?
> 
> I am a fan of reStructuredText and rst2html but definitely agree that this
> functionality does not need to be in the core of Automake and that there only
> needs to be sufficient provision to hook in some formatting tool to produce
> alternate output formats.
> 
Thanks for the feedback.  Let's start deprecating the feature in the
documentation then.  I'll push the attached patch by tomorrow evening
if there is no objection.

Regards,
  Stefano

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