Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] manpage for lcd4linux

[Xavier V. <xav...@fr...>]

Hello Jerry !

> I would be willing to go with docbook if it suits our needs.  I have never
> used docbook before, but then I had never written a manpage before last
> week. :)  Is docbook used in other open source projects?
In fact docbook is very used for documentation, for example
  documentation of gnome projects is done with, Linux Documentation
 Projet too, ...
It's one more markup language to learn, but it isn't harder than HTML
(and vim has syntax coloring support for it)

> > BTW: I SCPed the lcd4linux site, maybe it would be a good thing to
> > rewrite it a bit to avoid frames and friends. If you don't forbid me, I
> > would greatly like to give a try and rewrite it in PHP.
> I won't stop you from writing it in PHP, but...
> 
> 1. Do we really need PHP?  PHP really becomes useful when you want to have
> dynamic content on the web.  Unless we have plans to generate dynamic content
> (do we?), I'd rather leave the webpage in html or something similar that
> almost everybody can easily edit.
In fact, PHP isn't an absolute necessity, but it can be useful for
 news, release info, processing of Changelog, ...
I've written a changelog/todo parser for another project which retrieves
the changelog from CVS and parse it with bold, underline and things like
this, very eye-candy ;)

> 2. Right now the webpage is hosted on Sourceforge, I believe.  Does Sourceforge
> provide PHP?  If it doesn't, this would be a show-stopper.
Yes, SF provides PHP (hopefully)

> My personal opinion is to leave it in html for the time being.  How would
> you feel about modifying the web page to not use frames, and perhaps use
> CSS?
I became quite good with CSS and folks. A first step would be to use
CSS. But I think php may be a good thing. It's up to the team to decide

Bye !
-- 
Xavier VELLO <xav...@fr...>

PS: Jerry, always use Reply to List to reply to mails at
lcd4linux-devel as SF doesn't support reply-to tag.