On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > Why so convoluted? Anyone (you, me, Daniel...), anyone who has > installed PDL on their own computer already has all the docs installed > under mandir (wherever that is for PDL). In fact, the docs are there > in the PDL source package. Also, when PDL is installed, it also > generates HTML documentation (although, I must confess, I don't know > where it sticks them). All that is needed is to copy the files to the > web server.
First, those HTML docs are precisely what we have on the server right now: http://pdl.perl.org/?docs=FAQ&title=Frequently%20Asked%20Questions Second, you asked for an analogue of "perldl> help foo". Trust me, coying the HTML files is not the hard part. Just copying files does not give you PDL's help function, and it certainly doesn't give you an HTML-aware version of the help function. > Now, all that is left is to glue the search box and the docs directory > together with your perl script. > > Also, with regards to the auto-suggest, the easiest auto-suggest would > be for the various functions. PDL has a finite number, albeit a lot, > of functions/methods in its various packages. Even a flat-file db (or > a DBM) would be able to power a useful auto-suggest. Patches welcome. Daniel. -- No trees were killed in the generation of this message. A large number of electrons were, however, severely inconvenienced. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
