Re: Minutes of Gnome 2 release team meeting (late): 2002-05-17

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

mån 2002-05-27 klockan 22.09 skrev Federico Mena Quintero:
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:00, hobbit aloss ukuu org uk wrote:
> >     * Help system
> > 
> >     Currently help works beautifully on some systems but on others
> >     when you hit 'help', there is a long wait for the machine to 
> >     find the right stylesheets because if it can't find them locally, 
> >     it looks for them on the net. We need to get the right stylesheets 
> >     onto people's boxes, It would be nice if all the distros did the
> >     same thing and shipped the same versions of ones, but they don't. 
> >     There are lots of caveats here: we do not want to mess up catalogues, 
> >     we do not want to end up with unnecessary duplication, and we want 
> >     to keep it all as described by various standards. Sander and Jody 
> >     will try to track down the precise list of stylesheets and look at 
> >     whether we need to ship it.
> 
> The basic problem is that Yelp tries to be too smart, but is rather dumb
> at the same time.  Yes, the right thing to do is to fetch the
> stylesheets from the net if you don't have them --- that's what the
> document header's URL is for.  However, it should really tell you about
> what it is going to do.

Well, this is not really true. It's libxslt that tries to be smart not
Yelp. I am now doing xsltParseStylesheetFile on yelp-customization.xsl,
this file includes the xsl-files that is being downloaded over the net. 

I don't really know how to download the stylesheets form yelp and then
get them to be used and personally I find the libxml/libxslt headers a
mess but I plan to look into this sometime. If there is some way I can
ship the stylesheets with yelp I would be happy to do so since we need
to have a certain version (1.48) which from what I understand noone
ships (Red Hat 7.3 ships 1.49) so it's not really duplication if I just
copy the stuff needed into the yelp installation.

Perhaps it is but if it solves all peoples problems I wouldn't have any
problems doing so. I think this way of doing it is much better than
offer to download and install the stylesheets since the user shouldn't
have to be bothered. That way we could just get rid of the entire xml
catalog mess.

What do you guys think?

Regards, 
  Mikael Hallendal

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