From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:12:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions
Message-ID: <9b18b3110908280912o271dc095o67bc82b31e91680e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090828133708.GA11146@kisimul>

2009/8/28 seanh <seanh.nospam@gmail.com>:
> 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/"