On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:03 PM, osimons wrote:

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>
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> On Sep 12, 1:47 am, "Noah Kantrowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yep, that’s why it isn't a blocker. I just want to get the docs  
>> rewritten too.
>>
>> --Noah
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Remy Blank
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:47 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Trac-dev] Re: State of the newhelp branch?
>>
>>> Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>>>> At some point I need to make a help provider that groks sphinx  
>>>> pickle
>>>> output. Not reeeeally a blocker, but important.
>>
>>> Does this mean that the branch will not be merged before the
>>> documentation has been converted to Sphinx? I thought that a first  
>>> step
>>> could have been to use the existing wiki pages (slightly adapted),  
>>> and
>>> just to have them managed by the help module. This would already  
>>> be a
>>> big step forward.
>>
>>> -- Remy
>
> What is done and what remains is pretty much covered by
> http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/Proposals/NewHelp - at least as
> my original idea goes.
>
> There has been various earlier discussions about the branch and state
> of the docs (search the trac-dev archives), and I've just been waiting
> for Noah (or others) to apply their ideas for integrating Sphinx in
> the branch before progressing. Not quite knowing how the docs will
> change, I figured it would be best just to leave them as-is for now to
> make it easier to integrate latest docs changes to default wiki pages
> before progressing.
>
> I'm ready to move forward with the branch, but some outstanding issues
> like seach will also depend on how the docs are to be stored and
> retrieved for display - and no doubt it will also mean adjustments to
> some of the current assumptions.
>
> Noah, if you have time to outline what Sphinx will imply and your
> proposed changes, that would be most welcome.

No actual changes really, just an additional IHelpProvider that can  
read the pickled HTML blobs produced by sphinx-build. The only things  
I would like to see added in general is some kind of index system, and  
a category ID in addition to the page ID.

--Noah
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