On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:22:49 +0100 Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:52:04PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > >> blessed with variable network latency. And it's absolutely no substitute > > >> for the context-sensitive help offered by most IDEs. > > > > > > Lazarus and the textmode IDE both provide context sensitive help. (CHM > > > based) > > > > Right. So as I said earlier: where's the idiot's guide to getting the > > up-to-date files and putting them where they'll do most good, > > The readme in the relevant docs-chm archive? Maybe the chmhelppkg.lpk can add some hints to the IDE? Or maybe even a small dialog to run the scripts and create the chm files? > > and what can be done to make sure that people hitting Google or the wiki > > sees those instructions? Google for "lazarus chm" already gives as top hits all the wiki pages. And they contain links to each other. > The current situation is a result of competing help formats. This made > developers wary of choosing one over the other as "default" format. Evidently the competition has pushed the help formats. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
