osimons wrote:
> The NewHelp branch is working, and more or less (more less than
> more :-) in sync with trunk. It got left to "mature" while waiting for
> Sphinx-ification, but Noah has assured me that it should be quite easy
> to get done as a provider.

Is Sphinx-ification even necessary before merging newhelp into trunk?
Couldn't the current wiki pages just be kept (obviously with all links
changed to [help:...] or [doc:...]) and conversion to Sphinx be done in
a second step?

> I'm starting to lean towards making it into
> a generic 'Documentation' container that can provide a "resolve and
> view container" for any purpose. In the simplest implementation it
> just gets abstracted one level, so that the 'realm' becomes 'docs'
> instead of 'help', and every installation ships with a 'trac-guide'
> documentation set that basically follows the current approach (api,
> plugins and help providers).

This sounds like an excellent idea!

> for instance read files in repos.

I see that as a very valuable feature as well.

> Sphinx, Doxygen, Epydoc and similar could likely easily fit into this
> scheme, as of course could any other means of provinding rendered
> content at a given path.

reStructuredText, javadoc, ...

> Does a 'Library' section make sense as part of Trac?

It makes a lot of sense (to me, at least).

-- Remy

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