Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 45116: /trunk/ /trunk/: Makefile.nmake config.nmake

["Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard () GTECH COM>]

Ah yes, I guess we download the user-guide.zip as part of the setup because we don't currently require developers to 
have all the tools to build the documentation themselves.

- Chris
Ref: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2160

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-
> bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Maynard, Chris
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:02 PM
> To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 45116: /trunk/
> /trunk/: Makefile.nmake config.nmake
>
> OK, on second thought, I think I'm going to revert this change.
>
> If you're a developer building Wireshark, then you probably want the
> latest help available, not a snapshot from some time in the past.  The
> latest is either the one you built yourself if you've got the HTML Help
> Worshop tools or the online help, not the one extracted from the user-
> guide.zip file.
>
> But then why do we download the user-guide.zip as part of the setup to
> begin with?
> - Chris
>
> ________________________________________
> From: wireshark-commits-bounces () wireshark org [wireshark-commits-
> bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of cmaynard () wireshark org
> [cmaynard () wireshark org]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:03 PM
> To: wireshark-commits () wireshark org
> Subject: [Wireshark-commits] rev 45116: /trunk/ /trunk/: Makefile.nmake
> config.nmake
>
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=45116
>
> User: cmaynard
> Date: 2012/09/24 06:03 PM
>
> Log:
>  We're downloading the user-guide as part of the setup, so we might as
> well copy it to the install directory.  If someone has built a more up-
> to-date version of the user-guide in the docbook directory, then it
> will just overwrite this one, but for most developers, I don't think
> they're building their own, so at least this way they'll still have a
> local copy of the user-guide.  If optional is the preferred default,
> then we can change config.nmake and just comment out UG_DIR and mark as
> "optional" instead of "recommended".
>
> Directory: /trunk/
>   Changes    Path              Action
>   +1 -0      Makefile.nmake    Modified
>   +5 -0      config.nmake      Modified
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