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KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Service

Posted by Dre on Tuesday 16/Jan/2001, @13:52
from the it's-now-so-easy dept.
KDE.com has announced it will provide a convenient service to all KDE developers who, for whatever reason, have not been able to compile KDE documentation properly or who do not want to go through the hassle of installing all of the necessary packages to compile KDE .dockbook files. Simply visit the KDE.com DocBook Documentation Generator, create an account (if you don't already have one for KDE.com or APPS.KDE.com), upload your index.docbook file (requires a browser such as Konqueror supporting the 'file' input method) and in a few minutes the generated HTML will be available for download. Enjoy!

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Re: KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Servic
by ac on Wednesday 17/Jan/2001, @11:12

Ahhhh... not the pain of creating Yet Another Website Account. ;)

Hopefully "Pain Of Creating Account" << "Pain Of Installing Working DocBook"

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Re: KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Service
by Dre on Wednesday 17/Jan/2001, @15:07

Yes, the pain is far less.

Thought about not requiring an account, but it takes quite a bit of CPU power to compile .docbooks -- jade appears to be quite inefficient (a 60K docbook file can take up to 15 seconds of actual CPU usage on a PII-550 to compile).

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Great idea !
by David Faure on Wednesday 17/Jan/2001, @17:35

Wow, amazing idea. Andreas, you amaze me every day.
Thanks for the service (it's worth to note that I use a machine of Andreas to generate the documentation for the official tarballs, too !).

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Re: KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Service
by Caleb Land on Thursday 18/Jan/2001, @14:30

DocBook can be a pain in the ass to install and set up because there are different pieces of software, and different ``languages'' and concepts, but in the end it is probably beneficial to developers to understand how it works.

A note to those who do want to try to do their own docbook compiling: don't use the cvs version of openjade, I don't think it's been touched in months, and I couldn't for the life of me get it working.

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Re: KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Service
by anonymous coward on Friday 19/Jan/2001, @07:32

AT LAST !!!

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Re: KDE.com Offers Free Docbook Compilation Service
by Docs of current CVS on Sunday 21/Jan/2001, @03:29

Just an idea: What about compiling the docs of the CVS tree every night and making a link to download the whole doc-package? While the Code allmost ever compiles, the docs just won't.

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