[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Drop comments from extension build, and drop requirement of docbook for regress testing

[Paul Ramsey]

+1 to removing comments as an extension dep. I don’t honestly think they get much use, too-cute-by-half.


> On Sep 14, 2023, at 2:07 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> 
> We have a build and regress requirement of Docbook for basic regression
> testing.
> This became painfully obvious to me with the upgrade to docbook5 when all
> our bots broke, and my system I can no longer regress test.
> 
> The main dependency sadly is because of the help comments included in the
> extension builds. These bring in a docbook and xsltproc dependency.
> 
> I'd like to drop comments from the extension builds with the intention of
> also not requiring docbook anything to regression test.
> 
> 1) The comments can be still be generated by Debbie and packaged in tarball
> for those who want to use them and also available on the website as loose
> sql files for easy install.
> 2) We can maybe have a test that tries to install comments (just for those
> bots who have docbook), so that we can still catch those issues with people
> misdocumenting new features.
> 3) The garden tests will still require docbook, so those bots we have
> running those will still require docbook.
> 
> Other bots I expect should not need docbook at all to test.	
> 
> +1 
> 
> 
> 
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