Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for submittingsimple doc patches

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "James" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: [talk] why it'd be great to have web interface for 
submittingsimple doc patches


> On 10/06/2012 05:46 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > As you say, compile-edit-compile cycles are shorter than the full build, 
> > but can
> > occasionally not reveal errors, so for a proper test it's always better 
> > to nuke
> > the build directory and rebuild from scratch.
>
> Out of curiosity, what kind of errors?  I imagine stuff involving 
> cross-references, the index, etc.?


It's more that there are a variety of outputs generated from the doc 
source - pdf, split html, large html, info, etc. - to be sure that the 
source is OK you need to be certain all have been generated and therefore 
checked, and the simplest way of ensuring that is from a clean build.

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Phil Holmes