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Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions

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Ddemerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
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Aug 28, 2009, 16:12 UTC
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2009/8/28 seanh <seanh.nospam@gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:21:42AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
>> As you can generate the PDF's from the latex then just hack gitweb to
>> let them download it from there.
>
> Unfortunately gitweb is written in Perl. But I know what you mean, it
> should in theory be possible for them to click on a 'Get PDF' link for a
> particular revision that causes the PDF to be built and returned to
> their browser.

What is unfortunate about that? Perl is a duct tape/swiss-army-knife of the internet. Hacking gitweb to generate PDF's on the fly from latex documents should be a fairly trivial hack, even if you aren't a Perl hacker.

See:
http://search.cpan.org/~andrewf/LaTeX-Driver-0.08/lib/LaTeX/Driver.pm
for just one of many Perl modules to interface with with LaTeX.
Good luck.
Yves
-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
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  1. seanhAug 27, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 27, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 27, 2009
  4. Paolo BonziniAug 28, 2009
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  6. seanhAug 28, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2009
  8. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  9. Merging in Subversion 1.5 (was: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions)Jakub Narebski, Aug 28, 2009
  10. Avery PennarunAug 28, 2009
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  22. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2009
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