Re: [Boost-build] Ticket #2232: Documentation build needs to detect missing prerequisites

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-20 13:17:24

Eric Niebler wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> 
>> Well, on the other hand, the dependency on tetex is fairly nasty; personally,
>> I would not even dare to try installing tetex on windows. Did you discuss this
>> extra requirement on the mailing list?
> 
> I posted a message about it to the boost-docs list when I introduced the
> dependency and nobody objected. And I tested the doc build with the
> MiKTeX distribution on windows.

Well, asking on boost-docs is only right if we assume that only folks on
that list will ever need to build docs; which I don't think is the case.

I'm not going to argue this point further -- after all, for better or for
worse, I'm not using Windows on a daily basic; but it seems adding more
requirements without discussion on boost-devel is not right.

- Volodya