Re: API docs locations

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 02Sep2001 10:16PM (+0200), Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been examining various parts of our libraries to find out if
> there's any standard location that the api docs go into when they're
> installed. Sadly, this is not the case:
> 
> * glib and gtk+ install docs in $(datadir)/gtk-doc/html
> 
> * gnome-libs installs docs in $(datadir)/gnome/html
> 
> * bonobo installs docs in $(datadir)/bonobo/html
> 
> * oaf doesn't seem to install its api docs at all
> 

I just made it stop installing them recently because
$(datadir)/oaf/html seemed like a lame place to install them, and most
distributions seem to prefer installing docs somewhere under /usr/doc
anyway.

> So for gnome 2 it'd be very nice to have some sort of common location
> where all api docs would be installed. Any thoughs?

Agreed.

 -Maciej