On Mon, 25 Sept 2023, 00:57 Waldek Hebisch, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:23:04PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > Since I currently put up the stuff at fricas.github.io, it actually
> needn't
> > be me.
> >
> > On 23.09.23 09:47, Qian Yun wrote:
> > > Most importantly, documentation should be put there.
> >
> > Definitely, my suggestion would be that we simply serve the pages from
> >
> >   https://fricas.github.io
> >
> > from https://fricas.org. And that would be completely easy to do.
>
> That would be easy, but I am affraid rather unsatisfactory.  I mean,
> API pages and PDF of FriCAS book are good things.  But there are
> only handful of other pages at fricas.github.io, I hope that we can
> create more.  Part of my question is to find out what is desirable
> and possibly if there are persons willing to add something
>
> > The pages at fricas.github.io are generated from our official fricas git
> > repository. Since sphinx-doc is involved the result is basically pure
> html,
>
> Well, html and Javascript.  IIUC search does not work without
> Javascript.
>
> > no fancy content management system needed.
> > OK, the generation of the book requires latex, and imagemagick and a few
> > other things, but that's easy to setup. Otherwise only python3 and
> sphinxdoc
> > must be installed.
>
> sphinxdoc and python3 are somewhat problematic dependencies.  Namely,
> much of Python world is unstable, that is changes in incompatible
> ways in rather short timeframe.  We already had problems that
> version of sphinxdoc that you use was incompatible with my
> system and version I had did not work with your sources.
>

you can always pin down versions of python3 and its packages such as sphinx
etc, by no means you must be on the latest versions



> Also, batch regeneration may be OK for slowly changing things
> or things tied to specific release.  But I defintely do not want
> to delay updates to FriCAS website waiting for release.
> When page is really pure html I can update it using text editor
> and immediately see results, not so with batch update.
>
> To put it differently, batch update is fine for "official"
> documentaion.  But it would be useful to have less
> "official", more informal documentation.
>
> In ideal world we would first think about logical organization
> of material that we want to present, and then think about
> technology needed to do this.  But I am affraid part of
> problem is that there are different technologies and
> they do not cooperate very nicely.  And people get attached
> to specific technology they use, so effort gets fragmented.
>
> > First we must decide whether we want the website fricas.org to be in
> sync
> > with the latest release or whether it should be in sync with the git
> > repository. Other ideas?
>
> Official documentation should be with sync with latest release.
> But other parts not, we should update them independently.
>
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