Re: old way? (was Re: gnome-db2html2 and i18n)

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* David C. Mason (dcm@redhat.com) wrote at 21:25 on 25/08/00:
> John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net> writes:
> 
> 
> > Dave - When you say 'new tools' that we should not be jumping into, are you
> > including gnome-db2html2? By 'old fashioned way' are you suggesting 
> > we ship html, and simply render it with the newly available display 
> > engine(s)?
> 
> Well I am saying we need to think about all the issues
> involved. Personally I think for 1.4 we should stick to the old clunky
> tools and ship HTML (with better metadata tools, if we can). But that
> is only my opinion. It is not perfect, but we are asking for the new
> tools to do a *whole lot* in a very short period of time.

We can still do this if people want (i.e. I just have to move a few lines of
code so it searches for index.html before the SGML/XML file)
 
> > Advantages:
> > We can stick with the mature, if clunky, tools we now use to render
> > html, allowing us to focus our energy on some of the other advanced
> > features we'd like the Nautilus help system to have: quality indexing,
> > an omf-based organizational scheme.
> > 
> > Disadvantages:
> > We're stuck with the mature, if clunky, tools we now use to render
> > html, leaving us with all the problems gnome-db2html was meant to
> > avoid.
> > 
> > Is this the core of the argument?