Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue jul 01 21:52:00 -0400 2010:
>>> Is there something that makes installing dia more challenging than the
>>> other documentation build tools?
>
>> Err, I dunno -- it's just an apt-get away for me, but what will Tom say
>> when it doesn't work on his ancient HP-UX 10.20 system?
>
> I don't try to build the docs on that box anyway --- it does have
> openjade but such an old version that they don't build.  In practice
> building the docs already takes much more modern infrastructure than
> compiling the source code; and besides there are many fewer people
> who care about doing it.
>
> A more interesting question is whether Marc can install a working
> version of dia on whatever he uses to wrap the tarballs.

that shouldn't be an issue ... Peter runs an update every 3 hours on that
machine right now as it is ...

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