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bbidulock / icewm

A window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency
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Building without documentation [asciidoc] #638

Closed exebook closed 2 years ago

exebook commented 2 years ago

Hi I am trying to build icewm on a newly installed Ubuntu, but I cannot seem to find an option to build without documentation. I think I knew how to do this long ago, but forgot. configure --help did not help me. I know I need asciidoc but when I typed apt get asciidoc it said 

After this operation, 903 MB of additional disk space will be used.

I do not think I need another 903M of stuff to get a feature I never really use, I read all docs online.

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

You don't tell us if you build from git repository, but if you use the .tar.lz to build from, as the website explains, then you shouldn't need asciidoc.

exebook commented 2 years ago

Yes, from git. This replaced 903M for me:

sudo cp /bin/echo /bin/asciidoc
touch ./doc/icewm.html
sudo make install
exebook commented 2 years ago

This brings another interesting question though, why git usage also forces documentation? Is it like git is for maintainers only, users should use zipped releases? But modern users tend to git clone make install instead.

gijsbers commented 2 years ago

A release is convenient for users. The git repository is convenient for developers. Developers own beefy hardware. If you want to impersonate as a developer then muscle your stuff.