Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Support writing man pages in MarkDown

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On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:53:53AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, den 24.12.2017, 14:03 +0200 schrieb Yishai Hadas:
> > On 12/13/2017 12:59 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > pandoc is fairly widely available in the distros with the notable
> > > problem that centos 6 and 7 can only get it from EPEL.
> > >
> >
> > There might be even a worse case scenario where pandoc may not exist
> > as
> > a package to be installed, for example how about SLES OS ?
>
> The release tarball could contain pre-built man page. So in case the OS
> does provide pandoc to regenerate the man pages, the pre-built can be
> used.

Why should OS be dependent on pandoc? IMHO all releases should contain
pre-built man pages and they should be used without need to regenerate
them at all.

>
> > > Since this may be a problem, I am thinking about following the
> > > libfabric approach and either including the precompiled man pages
> > > in
> > > the source tree, or just providing a framework for downstream to
> > > add-on precompiled files (with a cbuild command to make them)
> > > Looking for feedback on what path is best..
> > >
>
> Please do not place generated files in the git repository.
>
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