[Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:02:53PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> This is actually a nice idea - in fact it would be great for the Greek
> documentation set, which is constantly changing as more translations are
> added.
> I just tried the el package and it works great. I could even include
> this in some custom package cd sets I am giving out to people.  Having
> local docs is very important for people without always-on Internet (and
> I know quite a few)
>

I think we don't (well I should check it) provide monthly updated
PDF version, this is a part of my objective.

> Since as you said you have a way of automating this, my only other
> question would be how often will these be updated. Are you planning,
> say, for monthly releases?

These are ports, so once they are committed they can be updated.  An
update by month sounds reasonable, but people can update locally the
ports if they need more frequent updates.

-- 
Marc