>> Who has no webserver on his machine nowadays? Especially if he is >> interested in PHP? Livedocs offers a lot more possibilities also in an >> offline (ie without internet connection, with local webserver) setting, >> if used appropriately. > > You know.. I've been thinking about this. > > In order for something like this to work, we'd have to purge most > extraneous tools from the build chain. > > For example, livedocs does a /path/to/phpdoc/configure when it > ./build.sh which requires things like xsltproc > > So, now the questions: > 1) is there a way to configure the docs (and "build" livedocs) without > installing a bunch of libraries (especially on cygwin).. I'm thinking > that a pure PHP solution is the the only reasonable expectation. > 2) if not, does anyone care to work on something that would allow this > OPTIONALLY? (Obviously, PHP scripts are going to be slower than the > native C (e.g. xsltproc), most of the time.)
1. We can easily ship an sqlite db for the complete manual, as we are going to do with all the mirror sites, when livedocs will be ready to handle serving the manual. 2. We can provide a web service for users to pick their customized manual, and get a customized sqlite db plus the needed XML files in a package. 3. For those, who want more, requiring the full phpdoc build system is not an issue. With #2, we can already expand in areas not thought of before by our kind readers. Goba
