[vbox-dev] Building from SVN creates 2 users guides

[Michael Thayer]

Morning Perry,

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 08:28 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
> I am not upset that the French manual (PDF) is available and as stated 
> glad to see it.
> What I was after was the way to *NOT include it in the build. But all I 
> got was
> reasons why it was there.
> 
> I usually compile the build at least once a day and sometime two or 
> three times
> and any resource that I don't need just makes the time for completion 
> that much longer.
> 
> I found it myself and all is good.
Right, what you found is exactly what I would have suggested if I had
seen your mail to the list a bit earlier.

Regards,

Michael

> On 08/29/2011 01:48 AM, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > Hello Perry,
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:02 -0500, Perry Halbert wrote:
> >> It's simple actually after I found the little bugger.
> >>
> >> Config.kmk has the following line:
> >> # Enable any translations in OSE, even partial ones.
> >>    VBOX_WITH_DOCS_TRANSLATIONS=1
> >>
> >> And this from the doc/manual/Makefile.kmk
> >>    ifdef VBOX_WITH_DOCS_TRANSLATIONS
> >>     VBOX_MANUAL_ADD_LANGUAGES = fr_FR
> >>    endif
> > Just interested to know why it seems to disturb you so much.  We always
> > ship all UI languages that we support, so shipping all user manual
> > translations isn't much different to my mind, and it shouldn't be harder
> > to ignore the French manual than to ignore the French UI translation.
> >
> > We have disabled this for our own release builds because the French
> > manual isn't complete enough yet - hoping that if we enabled it in other
> > builds people might see it and give the translator a bit of support to
> > hopefully get it to a stage where we can ship it by default too.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael

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