Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add capnproto.

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Kenton Varda <kenton@sandstorm.io> writes:

> Hi, Cap'n Proto upstream author here. Noticed this thread in a Google
> search, thought I'd comment.
>
> To shed some light on the googletest situation:
>
> The googletest maintainers have deemed that googletest should never
> ever be system-installed, and have even disabled `make install` in
> their build. See:
>
> https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/Makefile.am#L300
>
> I don't really understand what they think they're solving here but it
> is what it is and this seems to make it hard to use googletest in a
> non-bundled way. It's possible I misunderstood, though.
>
> FWIW, Cap'n Proto only uses googletest to build its tests. It does not
> install any artifacts that were influenced by googletest.
>
> In any case, this dependency will be gone once I find time to do the
> next release. Sorry for the trouble in the meantime.
>
> -Kenton
>
> PS. regarding the man page, I believe Debian mostly generated this
> page from the capnp tool's help text. I'd accept a patch to
> c++/src/kj/main.c++ which adds some code to generate man XML format
> directly, so that we don't have to maintain the same text in multiple
> places.

I want to ask what is meant by man XML format? Do you mean to generate
man page? As far as I know, there are at least 2 ways to generate a man
page. One way is to use help2man, which is probably the Debian's
approach. Another way is to write the man page in pod (perl's plain old
documentation) and use pod2man to translate it into a man page. Would
you accept any of these approaches?

Thanks,
Alex