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Re: [wwwdocs] Make the arch table a HTML table in backends.html
- From: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- To: Kazu Hirata <kazu at cs dot umass dot edu>, gerald at pfeifer dot com
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:50:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] Make the arch table a HTML table in backends.html
- References: <200312280135.06415.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312281311220.23314@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20031230.101336.115937275.kazu@cs.umass.edu>
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 16:13, Kazu Hirata wrote:
> Hi Steven and Gerald,
>
> > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > > Subject says all. It's a bit patch, but it makes backends.html a bit
> > > prettier, and we now can for example add colors for obsoleted targets.
>
> Err, I would keep backends.html as is. If you really want to use
> HTML, you could probably convert the first table in HTML, but not the
> second one. If you really really want to use HTML, you could have the
> page automatically generated from a text file, preserving the raw text
> table elsewhere, but that adds an extra indirection, and I don't think
> potential improvement in appearance is worth the maintenance effort.
>
> Kazu Hirata
There's hardly any maintenance necessary for backends.html. I think using
some markup to identify obsoleted targets and such would be a good thing.
I'm surprised nobody else has responded. NB Zack asked me to do this :-)
Gr.
Steven