docs/82540: [patch] added en_US.ISO8859-1/books/bibliography to Makefiles

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-06-23 15:30, Murray Stokely <murray at freebsdmall.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:33:44PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2005-06-22 17:36, Benjamin Marschall <gammelgul at gammelgul.de> wrote:
>>>  en_US.ISO8859-1/books/bibliography wasn't included in the
>>>  en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ Makefile
>>
>> I think this was intentional, to avoid having the "bibliography" book
>> appear on the web site.  Murray is the right person to tell us if this
>> is true, though.
>
> That sounds correct.  If I remember correctly the bibliography in the
> handbook was at one point a rather ad-hoc affair just using
> <listitems> and such and so there was a project to use a proper
> DocBook <bibliography>, done by Val Vaschetto at the suggestion of Nik
> and/or I.
>
> Books could then query/include those items from the proper
> bibliography that are referenced, and we wouldn't need to maintain all
> the bibliographical data in multiple books.
>
> That is the goal, but I think the reality is that it was never
> finished.
>
> In either case, the long term goal or the intermediate place we're at
> now, I don't think there is a need to have the bibliography directory
> added to the Makefile.

Thanks!  That pretty much clears everything up.

If Benjamin has no objection, then, I'd like to close the PR (as part of
an effort to bring the doc/www PRs down to a much smaller number, like
the one I remember we used to have in 2000/2001).

- Giorgos