Re: Merging dev/texi2html [was: Re: Clean history]

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2008 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer
>
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > Just curiosity, what's the size of this redirected output file?
> >> >
> >> > Secondly: let's assume it's a million lines worth (this much it seems
> >> > to me).
> >>
> >> It's not THAT bad: A clean "make" and "make web" is "just" a bit over
> >> 133.000 lines, resulting in a redirected output file of 15MB (The file
> >> has 15.2 Mio. characters)...
> >
> > Roughly 26.500 of the lines come from the font generation, which spills
> > out loads of lines, which are absolutely incomprehensible to any mortal
> > (each glyph in each of our differently-sized fonts gets a line with
> > several numbers associated to the glyph). Do we really need that
> > excessive output? Is there any way to turn that off, anyway?
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to see this output, because I will notice when things are out
> of the ordinary.  I also find it highly annoying when projects
> 'prettify' their build output, because it makes debugging much more
> difficult.
>
> For example, you can reproduce problems in the build by cut & pasting
> the build output very easy.
>
> If you think it is too much, run it with >&  log.txt and use a pager
> to navigate it.

Hehe, that's exactly why I'm all for reducing the output: I tried debugging 
some build problems with the documentation using texi2html, but was so 
overwhelmed by the 100.000+ lines of build output that it was really hard to 
not loose orientation... 

Cheers,
Reinhold


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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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