Re: looking for volunteers phpDocumentor, new converter reST
| From: | Jon Parise | Date: | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:05:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: looking for volunteers phpDocumentor, new converter reST | ||
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:35:16AM -0400, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> ># apt-get install python
> >
> >I don't think its unreasonable to require Perl, Python or PHP, as they
> >are pretty major UNIX scripting languages.
>
> I think it's kinda silly and self-defeating to require another
> scripting language to compile the documentation for this scripting
> language. This is not about the ease of installation to me (python
> lives on all my systems, in fact I think it came installed on every
> system I run), it's the prinicipal of the matter.
To that end, we should ditch DocBook completely. All of the DocBook
rendering tools are non-PHP, and they can be a real pain in the ass to
install.
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