Re: [PATCH 04/11] doc: use asciidoctor to build man pages directly

> On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 14:14, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's no need to use xmlto to build the man pages when modern
> > asciidoctor can do it by itself.
> >
> > This new mode will be active only when USE_ASCIIDOCTOR is set.
> 
> May I suggest incorporating something more like brian's patch here [1],
> so that there's a separate knob for this thing?

> The commit message is short on details and makes it sound like this is
> it, we're done. But then there are several patches to fix up things.
> Which is a good approach, so that this patch doesn't need to do several
> things at once. This commit message could say something about it, e.g.,
> 
>   The doc-diff here [which doc-diff? see below] is a XYZ-line diff.
>   Large parts of this difference will be addressed in the following
>   patches.

> About the use of doc-diff: If this commit introduces a new knob rather
> than taking over USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=Yes, the next patch could be Peff's
> patch to doc-diff that compares the two asciidoctor approaches [2], and
> then the next few patches could diff between them. That would get the
> asciidoc-vs-asciidoctor differences out of the way, so you can focus on
> asciidoctor-vs-asciidoctor.

> With a separate knob, it would feel like a lot easier decision to take
> something like this. There are over 11000 lines in the doc-diff after
> applying your series, and there's the missing boldness for literals.
> Maybe those differences are all great (I would be missing the bold
> literals, though). If this series doesn't affect someone using
> "vanilla" USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=Yes, we could let this thing cook in master
> and work incrementally on top.