On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:56:23PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:46 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > As to your point about not wanting to do it for a single image- it seems
> > we could potentially say that for every individual image proposed, but
> > if we don't keep track of those images anywhere then we may not realize
> > that 5 or 10 have actually been done and proposed but never integrated.
> > If they're kept on the wiki then perhaps we would both keep track of the
> > ones proposed and realize when it's worthwhile to add support for them
> > to the doc build system.
>
> Right.
>
> > As to Tom's point on the previous thread, that we would need to actually
> > maintain these images, that is helped by using dia, imv, since it's a
> > pretty simple tool to use and understand and is available on many
> > platforms.
>
> I'd also take a look at ditaa, which might make this even simpler.
If we manage to keep Java out of our build toolchain, we will be much
the better for it.
Cheers,
David.
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