Re: Alternatives to yelp

["George Vlahavas" <vlahavas gmail com>]

Thanks Don and Shaun for your replies. :)

My issues with yelp are rather with its backends. I haven't submitted a bug report because I'm not sure it's a bug with yelp directly. Maybe you can enlighten me about it.

1. Trying to use firefox/iceweasel as backend, I can't compile it because libgtkembedmoz.so is missing. I think it was there in earlier firefox/iceweasel versions, but not anymore it seems.
2. It does compile against xulrunner, but it then segfaults everytime I try to access a docbook document. Probably a xulrunner problem because it used to work fine with older xulrunner versions. I'm now trying with xulrunner 1.8.1.14pre and 1.9.0.2pre.
3. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in thunderbird/icedove, and I can force yelp to use that when compiling, but it crashes everytime I'm trying to launch yelp. I know, it's not supported, but I had to try.
4. There is a libgtkembedmoz.so in seamonkey, but I don't want to make seamonkey a dependency for yelp, so it's not an option for me and I haven't even tried.

Thanks for any advice,

George

2008/8/6 Don Scorgie <Don scorgie org>

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:36 +0300, George Vlahavas wrote:

> Well... are there any drop-in replacements for yelp? I'm not aware of
> any.

Well... why are you looking for a drop-in replacement for yelp?  I don't
know any, but depending on what you want to do, there might be a few
options.
For man pages, there is xman (and man in the terminal)
For info, there is info in the terminal
For DocBook (GNOME manuals), I don't really know any.

I'm still wondering why you want a replacement.  If there's a problem with it,
have you filed a bug / asked about it?  Or is it missing something you need?

Cheers
Don