On 10 jan, 20:40, ikeg...@adaelis.com (Eric Brine) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Nicholas Clark > <perlbug-follo...@perl.org>wrote: > > > # New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark > > # Please include the string: [perl #107866] > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > > # <URL:https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=107866> > > > ./installhtml is now unacceptably slow. > > > Whilst the target install.html is marked as "experimental" on Unix*, it > > seems that installhtml is part of the regular install target in the Win32 > > makefiles, so will be common. > > For each dristro installed using ActivePerl's package manager, HTML > documentation is generated. ...and for each make (ExtUtils::MakeMaker) and each Build (Module::Build) using ActivePerl, HTML documentation is generated. > It's already a painfully slow step (especially > if you realise you don't use these pages). I don't know if this > "installhtml" is used to do this, but if so, any slowdown in it will affect > a lot of people. It will affect all People using ActiveState Perl.