Re: Cognitive dissonance

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jun 10 02:50:14 -0400 2010:
>> As I said back then, doing this is straightforward, but we kind of need
>> more than one user who asks for it before we make it part of a regular
>> service, which comes with maintenance costs.

> Hey, count me as another interested person in a single-file plain-text
> doc output format.

Well, there are two separate things here:

* providing a Makefile target to build plain-text output.

* shipping prebuilt plain text docs in standard distributions.

I am for #1, not so much for #2, mainly on the grounds of size.  But
given #1 it would be possible for packagers to make their own choices
about whether to include plain-text docs.

            regards, tom lane