Re: Dropping bightml support

On 8/18/07, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > > > I have for a long time wondered why we distribute "bightml" (the whole > > manual in one html file). > > That file is _huge_, 20mb! My Firefox can't even open it, freezes for > > a while (eating up few hundreds mb of ram, and taking full control > > over my cpu) and then either crashes or becomes veery sluggish. > > > > I can't imagine why anyone would want the whole docs in a single file.. > > It's useful if you want to print it. I tried making a PDF through open > office from it, which was working great. You printed the entire manual? :) If we get the PDF builds up & running, wouldn't that be simpler then? Or is there maybe no point in distributing PDF if you can generate it yourself from the html anyway? -Hannes