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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/8/2015 4:51 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
> On 4 April 2015 at 16:23, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Now that we are in feature freeze, I need an update on where we stand as
>> far as the asciidoc documentation conversion process is concerned.  I
>> did a git pull yesterday and now `make html` fails for a missing po
>> directory.  I have a few questions about the current state of the
>> documentation.
>>
>> 1) Is all of the legacy ODT documentation converted to asciidoc?
>>
>> 2) Does all the English language asciidoc build in both html and
>>    pdf at least on Linux?
>>
>> 3) Do all of the supported translations build?
>>
>> 4) I didn't see any CMake configuration files yet.  Are we making any
>>    progress on that front?
> 
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> Sorry, I've been really busy doing other stuff, but the CMake stuff is
> underway: https://github.com/BrianSidebotham/kicad-doc
> 
> It's still experimental and not fully functional yet, but it can now
> progress better. Nick has fixed the msys2 KiCad-Winbuilder which was
> broken for a while and had me stumped! That project is now close to
> being able to provide decent installers. At the moment it can create
> the installers, but I think there's still some outstanding work to
> make the installers complete.
> 
> Hopefully I'll be able to get the CMake stuff up and running pretty
> soon. I'll concentrate on Linux and then make sure things work through
> msys2. PDF generation under msys2 is a pain, but could be possible
> through either asciidoctor-pdf or else a2x and Apache fop.

What development isn't painful on windows?  Kudos to the msys2 folks for
significantly improving the situation.  It's come a long way from all
the set up work required to get the old msys/mingw32 system to work.
I'll see if I can take a look at your CMake work this weekend.

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Brian.
>