Re: [PATCH rdma-core 06/20] build: Support rst as a man page option

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On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:25:29PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:51:49PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 07:47:34PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:49:22PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > infiniband-diags uses rst as a man page preprocessor, so add it along side
> > > > pandoc in the build system.
> > >
> > > Why don't we convert RST to MD prior to integrating infiniband-diags
> > > into rdma-core, instead of introducing extra dependency and complexity?
> >
> > The ibdiags stuff uses RST's #include feature extensively and
> > unwinding all of that is simply too hard. Maybe someday we can do it.
> 
> Doesn't pandoc handle such conversion? Anyway you are introducing some
> tooling to do some conversion on the flight.

I didn't try to make pandoc work, that might be a future effort.

pandoc and rst2man have various differences.

Jason



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