doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum) provides EVERY SINGLE TIME there is a new

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum)

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file Ben format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does Ben not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the Ben 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Joel Klecker
At 08:06 -0800 1999-01-21, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Is there any way doc-base can provide some kind of macro expansion, so I don't have to edit: /usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13-doc/gtk-faq.html/ ... every time I have a new package, instead, doing something like VERSION=1.1.13

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Jules Bean
On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file Ben format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does Ben not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules In general, it is IMHO silly to rewrite, yet again, a macro Jules substitution engine into a special purpose piece of Jules software (doc-base) when we already have several good, fast Jules macro substituters (cpp, m4) and a

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dale == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It Ben seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not