Re: CVS commit: basesrc/distrib/notes

[John Hawkinson <jhawk%MIT.EDU@localhost>]

Simon Burge <simonb%wasabisystems.com@localhost> wrote on Tue, 27 Nov 2001
at 12:00:55 +1100 in 
<20011127010056.023361E4DD%thoreau.thistledown.com.au@localhost>:

> > By doing it this way, it doesn't slow down the regular generation
> > of the release notes, and normal people generating the release
> > notes don't have to worry about making sure they have a consistent
> > table of contents generated.
> 
> Are these files automatically regenerated if something does change
> in the release notes themselves that would change the resultant page
> numbers?

No. There's no good way to detect that without regenerating them,
short of regenerating every time the source files changed. That could
certainly be easily done, but I wasn't prepared to do it.

>  The speed argument is a bit of a furphy really...

*shrug*. I was attempting to add afeature in the least intrusive
way possible.

Also, it seems a little weird to have to run the TOC generation
*twice* every time you generate the notes, which is what would
be strictly required.

I think it's OK for someone to generate them once/release and
and more frequently as-needed.

--jhawk