Re: Automating docs compilation in the software build process

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

David,

If the build is really the shipping product--and assuming I understand you correctly--then what your developers have requested is that you deliver doc source files _to the customer_, which is clearly a change in deliverables that has to be approved at your company's management level. Essentially, it's a form of giving away the cow, and your developers cannot just decide on their own that this is a good thing to do.

I think if you put it in those terms, they'll get it.

Dick 

David Handy <david -dot- handy -at- automsoft -dot- com> wrote:

>Currently I provide all docs in a
>finished state, i.e. I compile the master help file from several HTML Help
>projects, build the PDFs from Framemaker, apply relevant security settings,
>and check the lot into VSS for inclusion in the build. The developers
>dislike this because the whole shooting match takes me a half-hour, whereas
>with automated scripts it could be done in moments -- they contend -- on our
>Build machine. 
>
>Has anyone had any experience doing this? Are there major snags? 
>


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