[rb-general] Sphinx output always reproducible?

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Wed Apr 11 20:23:51 CEST 2018


Hi Martin,

> > However, I think it would be superior to use the original ordering
> > that exists in the code (see my comments about the Abstract Syntax
> > Tree).
[…] 
> Still, currently the order of sets in docs is arbitrary anyway.

Whilst we don't break anything by forcing any deterministic order,
documentation is for the human to read — often the order in which
values are written into the unordered data structure (from a
technical point of view) is actually meaningful.


Best wishes,

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