Re: gtk-doc manual on library.gnome.org (and library.gnome.org status (shining, read it now))

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:06 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Stefan Kost wrote:
> 
> > what needs to be done to get the gtk-doc manual to appear on lgo (its a normal
> > docbook manual that works fine in yelp)? gtk-doc is an important piece for
> > develoeprs to get their docs generated. I invest efforts to improve the manual,
> > but distributions mostly do not package it (I stated to file bugs against some).
> > It should at least appeah on lgo.
> 
> I wanted to wait a little bit before announcing this, but I'll talk
> about it now.  At GUADEC we had a little meeting with Murray and Lucas
> (unfortunately Goran couldn't attend) about library.gnome.org, what
> was holding it up, what we would want to see before 2.20.

I added a bugzilla component to make this a little more organized:

Here are the open bugs (none currently):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=component%
3Alibrary.gnome.org

Here is the URL for submitting a new bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=website&component=library.gnome.org

> I worked a little bit on that on the journey back, waiting for a train in
> London, but finally decided to almost start from scratch, reusing XSLT,
> Javascript and a few ideas from current implementation, but not much more.
> 
> My current code is available with `bzr get http://www.0d.be/bzr/libgo/';
> and I should probably push it to svn since what was just an experiment
> proved a good idea.
> 
> I have been running it yesterday night on my webserver, and the output is
> available at http://lgo.0d.be/; anybody feel free to comment.
> 
> 
> What it does is iterating over GNOME tarballs, extracting gtk-doc and
> gnome-doc-utils elements, and formatting them nicely for all to see.
> 
> And here comes your question, how to add gtk-doc help manuel to lgo; the
> easiest way would be to use gnome-doc-utils; but this would create a
> circular dependency (gnome-doc-utils needs glib needs gtk-doc) and is thus
> not possible.
> 
> So I will just have to special-case gtk-doc, or add some heuristics (maybe
> considering "include $(top_srcdir)/xmldocs.make" to be proof there is
> useful documentation in the directory), and get it built along the rest.
> 
> I am very busy today and tomorrow, I will have time this weekend to add
> this.

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Murray Cumming
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