Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:27:44 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Policy on image source files in the CVS tree Message-ID: <20010517122744.B3349@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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--s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks, I'm rethinking the policy on image source files in the doc/ tree. Up till now, I've said that only PNG or EPS images should be allowed in the doc/ tree, and that it's up to doc builders to have the necessary tools installed (eps2png, basically) to convert between them as necessary. I think that might be bit too restrictive, and I'd like to loosen it up a little bit. Specifically, some of the images that we are going to be using will not have a source format of EPS or PNG. They might be Xfig diagrams, for example, or video screen dumps with the new scrshot stuff we've been talking about over the past few days. I think it's reasonable to allow these in the repository as well. However, I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone else to need to install the tools to do the conversion in order to build the docs. So, I'd like the policy to be; If you use third party tools to generate images then you can commit the source file (e.g., figure1.xfig) to the repository. However, you must *also* commit the same image as either EPS or PNG (e.g., figure1.eps) so that other people can build the documentation with the minimum installed toolchain. Thoughts? N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsDtbAACgkQk6gHZCw343VP1QCeO8/owjhk1rb6Deklz0Gzw+2y gDUAn338SB5CbZhM1OQka+nCrGl2hfEk =aOuI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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