[cmake-developers] Avoid installing Sphinx html build files
Stephen Kelly
steveire at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 14:36:23 EST 2014
Brad King wrote:
> On 01/28/2014 12:35 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Brad King wrote:
>>
>>>> Alternatively, consider something like the no-duplicate-install-doc-src
>>>> topic in my clone instead.
>>>
>>> We can't reference the source tree for redistributable docs.
>>
>> Oh, I didn't intend for that. What about using a relative path?
>
> Since the documentation can be packaged and distributed separately
> from the main CMake installation I see no reason to go through the
> trouble of de-duplicating installation of these sources. In the
> future we may compile the Help/ resources into some kind of database
> that gets installed so that we can do more --help-variable command
> line work. At that point the Sphinx-generated docs won't be able
> to reference them. IMO this is premature optimization.
Fair enough.
Steve.
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