On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Florian Haftmann wrote:
since ancient times there is a glitch in the naming of manuals vs. their
originating sessions, e.g. isar-ref vs. IsarRef.
Would it be worth an effort to consolidate this? I regularly get
confused about that.
This is one of these recurrent (low priority) questions from distant past.
Just a few days ago I was again thinking of it, but did not get the right
idea where to move.
The short doc identifiers like "isar-ref" have a semi-formal status; they
are relevant to "isabelle doc", the Isabelle/jEdit Documentation panel,
and are published as global URLs (already for decades). Changing that
would cause a lot of confusion.
Session names cannot be changed either without violating increasingly
important naming conventions: capitalized words usually separated by
underscore. Renaming IsarRef to Isar_Ref would make it look more modern,
but still disagree with the document name "isar-ref". (Note that a "-"
within a session name is a legacy feature for many years alread.)
So what is actually the problem here? The main practical situation where
this connection of divergent names needs to be resolved is "isabelle
build_doc". That could be smarter, or actually somehow be automatic as
part of the document viewer. But we are talking about the Isabelle
repository here, not a proper release.
I often just do "isabelle build_doc -a -j4" before viewing anything within
the repository.
Makarius
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