On 27 December 2012 08:47, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > In addition, I noticed that the Ubuntu manual pages have HTML markup, > would it be possible to adopt whatever code they are using for that? > (...)
Some months ago I started tinkering with their scripts (actually Dustin Kirkland's). They basicly extract all the manpages from packages and convert them to (static) HTML pages. On top of this there is a Python script to search the archive. The code [1] is a little bit Ubuntu-specific but could be changed for Debian. I have added some of it (and modified it slightly) here: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/man-cgi/static-repository/ and started playing with it in glinka. It is available through here: http://manpages.debian.org/static/ (not fully working, very draft form) However, it's far from finished. I have not been able to allocate enough time to have a final implementation though The downside of this approach is that the service would consume double the disk space it currently does. As it would have two repositories: - one with the original manpages (aprox. 6 GB currently) - one with the manpages converted into static HTML files The HTML files would be there regardless of whether they actually get used or not. On the upside: it would be faster, since the CGI script would not need to generate the manpages on the fly for every user. Best regards Javier [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-docs/+spec/ubuntu-manpage-repository -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org