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

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Frederic,

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 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.

The site looks really good! Maybe you could look for the scrollkeeper file
(gtk-doc-manual-C.omf in gtk-docs case).

Stefan