Re: [gnome-love] yelp [was: is this list active?]

[Jim Hodapp <jhodapp iupui edu>]

Shaun,

    That is excellent news!  The current yelp is useless in my opinion
for the very fact that it's so slow to bring up the actual help page. 
Your work will be a very welcomed addition that brings a lot of very
visible polish to Gnome in general.

Jim

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:39, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:21, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shaun McCance wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 08:50, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > > OK, now that we've established that the list is active, I have a
> > > > question.  I'm wondering, what are the plans for yelp? ...
> > >
> > > If you subscribed to gnome-love@ because you're looking for something in
> > > GNOME to work on, then you've just asked exactly the right question.
> > >
> > > I took over Yelp maintainership a couple of months ago, and I've been
> > > very busy reworking the entire transformation system...
> >
> > > http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/yelp/
> >
> > Ah, that looks very promising.  I'm afraid I'm too busy with my own
> > app to work on yelp, but from a position of complete ignorance I
> > wonder: Is it worth thinking about some sort of mechanism for caching
> > "compiled" helpfiles?  (M$ .chtml files do come up nice and quickly.)
>
> Caching is easy to do poorly, and impossible to do well.  If I thought
> it was worth doing poorly, I'd do it.  But I don't.  I can't give you
> any hard numbers right now on how fast the new transformation stuff is,
> but the word "instantaneous" is a pretty good description.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
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Jim Hodapp
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