stabilize path names in html output
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
fitz at red-bean.com
Fri May 20 15:05:03 CDT 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 20:32 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, Max Bowsher wrote:
> ...
> >> However, the book is a general piece of information not necessarily
> >> customized for any particular Subversion installation, so I do not think
> >> customized substitutions are required.
> >
> > I build the svnbook from source and put svn-book.html into our
> > subversion-doc package.
> >
> >> There are already several different preferences for a system repository
> >> base path, and of course repositories can actually go anywhere at all, so
> >> I
> >> think it's fine just to use one in the book, and let people apply their
> >> personal preferences to their own systems.
> >
> > Sure, the desired values can be overridden via make options.
> >
> >> Regarding binary paths, I suggest just using "/usr/bin/" everywhere -
> >> anyone who custom-installs Subversion somewhere else will easily
> >> understand
> >> the change they need to make to examples.
> >
> > I can prepare such a patch, if XML entities are not wanted.
>
> I think it comes down to authors' preference here - in other words:
>
> sussman/cmpilato/fitz - we have a question for you:
>
> Regarding the location of example repositories, and the location of the
> binaries...
> Is it desirable to allow the builder of the book to specify custom
> substitutions at build time?
No.
-Fitz
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