Re: Big web page

[Graham Percival]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 05:03:21PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> You know, I'm wondering if this serves any purpose.  It's a
> humungous thing that takes an age to load and display, and for a
> long time has had a load of missing images, bad links, etc.  No-one
> complained much and no-one really seemed to notice.  Yet we lose the
> images on web-examples and get a user report same day.
> 
> Given the shenanigans needed to create it, might it make sense to retire it?

When the new website was first being built, there was a huge
outcry when I suggested not bothering with it.

I'd rather keep it around, at least for a bit longer, because it
serves as a canary.  Is the doc build system as generic as we
need?  no.  (note that there's a few pictures in other manuals;
it's not just web-big-html that needs them)   Is the doc build
system as well-organized as we need?  of course not.


I think we can do a huge amount of work just by cleaning up the
"make website" process.  Admittedly that doesn't include
web-big-html, but the increased understanding and simplifications
should have follow-on effects to "make doc".

Cheers,
- Graham