Re: gnome developer docs - not sgml

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > > Are there non-sgml version of the docs?  Or is there a way to read them
> > > without requiring tons and tons of other packages?
> > hehe I asked the same question a couple days ago and got the answer "no."
> > Gnomers -- SGML might be a great development format, but foisting _yet
> > another_ document format on the world involves much pain.  It would most
> > cool if all SGML docs were converted into HTML or similar and put on an
> > FTP or Web site.
> 
> It's not so much having to convert them, it's what leads up to that.
> 
> SGMLtools requires python, so I went and put that on.
> SGMLtools is expecting TeX from the look of things...
> Also, when running the make, it was trying to kick of RPM ... sorry, not
> on Linux and have no need for that.

I gave up trying to make GNOME work under Solaris (or insert any
non-Linux platform here).  The dependency tree of required programs was
just too great, even if gnome-libs itself would compile at all.

That just means my GNOME newsreader is being written under Linux at
present.:)

	Jeff