[Scons-users] Asciidoc sample chapter

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:16 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote:
> On Pon, 2016-01-11 at 09:29 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> 
[…]
> > Isn't AsciiDoctor written in Ruby? If yes, this would add another
> > dependency to our toolchain...which might be tolerable but it's 
> > certainly a point to discuss.
> 
> Yes, original AsciiDoc is Python, while AsciiDoctor (mostly
> compatible)
> is Ruby, but with ~25x speedup.

I have to pull in a whole mass of dependencies to get a DocBook/XML
toolchain working, so I think a few extra dependencies to work with
ASCIIDoc or ASCIIDoctor is hardly a big deal.

For the GPars stuff I am using Gradle and the JRuby variant of
ASCIIDoctor. Using the Gradle ASCIIDoctor plugin, I have to do nothing
other than let Gradle download and install the toolchain. Generating
PDF and HTML from ASCIIDoctor source really is very, very
straightforward.

In a sense, it is a pity that SCons is a Make replacement, rather than
being like Maven and Gradle which manage external dependencies as well
as the build of the local source  ;-)

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Russel.
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