[OctDev] categorical index

[Paul K. <pki...@ja...>]

Hi all,

Anyone have the time to set up and maintain an
automated index of octave-forge functions?

make_index does most of the work already (though
the output is too ugly for words)  so it isn't
a matter of fixing the html.  It's just a matter
of figuring out how to set up a cron job on
octave.sf.net which:

  grabs the current tree (presumably with cvs export)
  runs make_index
  clears the old html/index directory
  copies the new octave-forge/index directory

The maintenance aspect is grabbing the DOCSTRINGS
files for each octave release and putting them 
someplace where make_index will find them.

make_index will need to be modified slightly to use
octave/scripts/DOCSTRINGS -- currently it is written
to walk the octave/scripts tree.  This should be
easy enough since it already uses octave/src/DOCSTRINGS,
so there is not much to figure out.

Thanks in advance,

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...