On 1 Gen, Jim Pick wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I like it but... > > I like it too. > >> 1) How about dwww? (Yes, I know dwww needs a web server...) > > I think I'll add support for .dhelp files to dwww too.
Oh, great! > >> 2) I really dont like to have 2/3/... methods of building indexes >> of documentation installed in the debian system. What about integrating >> all that stuff? (menu, dwww, dhelp, etc...) > > I agree - we should eventually have only have one index. > > I've been working on yet another way of building an index, but I'm been > very slow working on it. > >> 3) The policy says the preferred doc format is HTML (fine) but >> it says nothing about how to access it. Any ideas before we poor >> developer have to write a dozen of different conf files to support >> all that new help systems? (menu entries, .dwww-index, .dhelp, etc...) > > I'd consider all documentation menu systems "experimental" at this > point, so I wouldn't worry about it yet. Just support a particular > menu style if you feel like playing with it. > > FWIW, the menu system I'm working on was going to be SGML/DSSSL based, > so Marco's .dhelp menu format is perfect for that. I'll be able to > use the .dhelp format as input. > > Short term (in the next few days), I'm also going to enhance the > dwww menu-package based menus. I'll see if I can write a .dhelp to > "menu" converter. That way, package authors can write a single > .dhelp file, and support all the menu-building packages (dhelp, > menu, and dwww-next-generation). > > The next dwww should be ready by Sunday, at least. I'll surely try it, and i'll give a try at dhelp. My only concern was about incompatibilities; as now not much packages support the dwww or menu systems and I thought that a new system will stop developers to add documentation entries. I can't wait for the new SGML based system... ciao. ************************ ____************************************ * Federico Di Gregorio | / *-=$< ;-) TeX Wizard? * * Debian developer! | / -1 pgp: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * <friend of penguins> |/ try http://www.debian.org * ******************DE 9E B2 75 B4 F6 CC 5B C3 D5 71 51 04 AB F3 B2** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
