--enable-doc waf config option removed

James Browning jamesb.fe80 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 00:25:49 UTC 2020


On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, at 3:49 PM Gary E. Miller via devel
<devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
> Yo Jason!
>
> On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 16:44:25 -0500
> Jason Azze via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
> > It looks like the --enable-doc waf configuration option was removed
> > in the commit "Add support for other asciidoc processors". Was there
> > any discussion about this change?
>
> Not that I saw.  I'm for bringing it back.  Asciidoctor pulls in
> ruby, and ruby mutates so quickly that I find it often broken.

Unless someone changed it, Asciidoc still works. Rated as a second
fiddle though. As well as Asciidoc-py3 (second in line to replace
Asciidoc) and Asciidoc3 which has a seat at the foot of the table.

It would appear that I do not have enough experience with ruby
to form a properly negative opinion yet.


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