Minutes from FDSCo (03-May-2005)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:48 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:04 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:45 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > > Karsten: Assign task of making docs use common files in ./ instead of
> > >          ../, in order to work for separate modules per document.
> > 
> > I can see the benefits of going both paths (centralized vs decentralized
> > configs).  Is there a lot of demand for local xsl customization in the
> > fedora-docs/* documents?
> 
> Actually, I don't think there would be that much demand, because it
> would be a hindrance to consistency.  Karsten, there should be a pretty
> easy way to get modules to automatically "include" a checkout of the
> common stuff.  In the CVSROOT/modules file, simply insert this near the
> top of the list.  (The list itself is a little hinky, and could probably
> use some trimming, since it has a bunch of entries that don't match
> existing stuff in the repository.)
> 
> base      common css scripts xsl
> 
> Then, for any directories containing docs (i.e. modules), do:
> 
> module    module &base
> 

Whoops, that should have been:

module      module base

Using the "&" ampersand symbol moves the common/, xsl/, etc. *under* the
checked-out module, meaning that everyone would have to change existing
Makefiles, DTD's, etc.

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