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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 April 2015 at 14:08, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Wayne,

I did a few commits tonight and at least under Linux it'll now build
the equivalent of the Makefile stuff for CvPcb and package it up, so
that includes all languages in both HTML and PDF.

Best Regards,

Brian.