From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 33497@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33497: [PATCH] Re: bug#33497: Our CMake package has no documentation
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:36:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l81a26n.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o96glvvm.fsf@gmail.com>
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Marius!
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Now would be the time to get this in 'core-updates'.
>>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Our CMake package lacks any documentation (manpage or other). Patch to
>>>> follow.
>>>>
>>>> Maxim
>>>
>>> Here's the patch to be merged in core-updates (or core-updates-next).
>>>
>>> From 07625983cd901c94e4ac25b157035c95e33a115e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 01:39:54 -0500
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: cmake: Generate the documentation.
>>>
>>> This fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/33497.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/cmake.scm (gnu): Use the (gnu package python) and
>>> (gnu packages texinfo) modules.
>>> (cmake)[configure]: Add arguments to configure so that manual pages, info and
>>> HTML documentation is generated.
>>> [move-html-doc]: New phase.
>>> [native-inputs]: Add the native inputs required for building the
>>> documentation.
>>> [outputs]: Add a "doc" output.
>>
>> I'm not very comfortable with pulling python-sphinx into the dependency
>> closure of CMake, because then we can't update it or its dependencies
>> outside of the 'core-updates' cycle. It could also cause circular
>> dependency issues down the road.
>>
>> Would it make sense to build the documentation as a separate package?
>> In that case it can go on the master branch.
>
> I don't like the idea of having a separate package for the documentation
> of cmake because it goes against the expectations of Guix users (package
> comes with its manpage, and extra doc can be installed as extra output
> of the same package).
>
> Maybe we could have a "cmake-minimal" package we'd keep hidden and use
> by default as part of the cmake-build-system, which wouldn't include the
> doc, and the regular, user facing cmake would be the one in this patch?
This sounds reasonable to me. Can you send a patch? :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-17 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-25 6:49 bug#33497: Our CMake package has no documentation Maxim Cournoyer
2018-11-25 6:54 ` bug#33497: [PATCH] " Maxim Cournoyer
2019-02-12 20:17 ` Marius Bakke
2019-03-12 1:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-03-17 16:36 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2019-03-20 16:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-03-21 2:08 ` bug#33497: [PATCHv2] " Maxim Cournoyer
2019-03-21 18:40 ` Marius Bakke
2019-03-22 2:19 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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