[PD-dev] Work on "help" menu and help-patch searching spec
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Tue Apr 26 01:05:10 CEST 2005
On Apr 25, 2005, at 8:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I think the auto-generated menu should just recurse thru doc/ and
>> mirror that structure in the menu structure. Its not a great
>> solution, but better that what's there.
>
>
> why ?
> in my opinion, the doc/ is pretty much fixed (after packaging).
>
> additional libraries and externals are normally installed into extra/
> (or wherever additional "path"s point to)
> since p>=0.37 help can be installed besides them and will still get
> found.
>
> these are the real problematic (and interesting) objects to
> auto-index. (i mean, for the fixed objects in doc/, we can build an
> offline (this is: packaging-time) index.
>
> mfg.a.dsr
> IOhannes
Because its easy, its almost done, and its a temporary hack.
.hc
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