[boost] Re: Broken HTML doc link for boost::function

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-10 11:14:09

Douglas Gregor <gregod_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Monday 10 November 2003 10:22 am, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> At 08:47 AM 11/10/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>  >We generate and include the HTML documentation for releases. Checking
>>  >in the HTML generated nightly would make the CVS repository _huge_.
>>
>> Why is that? Presumably there would be no change in most files, so CVS
>> would not actually change.
>>
>> --Beman
>
> When we generate HTML from BoostBook, many entities get unspecified names 
> (like, say, id28193809). So if someone changes something tiny in a BoostBook 
> document, all these names could change, making for huge HTML diffs (even 
> adding/removing HTML files) even though the HTML hasn't changed 
> "semantically". It's hard to get around this without having a name mangler in 
> the BoostBook XSL (ugh).

Might be neccessary.  This is continuing to cause problems.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com