Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: Scrollkeeper code checked in

[Dan M. <d-...@uc...>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:

> * laszlo kovacs (las...@su...) wrote at 00:02 on 17/10/00:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I checked in most of the implementation of the proposal from:
> 
> This is excellent news! :) I need to check out the code sometime soon. I was
> just curious, but perhaps this should be announced to various Documentation
> projects (just in case people want to throw in their comments and/or want to
> contribute). Of course this should only be done when the code is in a "state"
> to accept contributions.

We definitely should do this, but I think we should wait until we have at
least a complete pre-release of 0.1.  Hopefully we can resolve the
remaining issues quickly.

> > The Scrollkeeper files go into prefix/var/lib/scrollkeeper.
> 
> Umm - which scrollkeeper files are you talking about? Are these the OMF files?
> Shouldn't they go into prefix/share/scrollkeeper?

This is something we should discuss on this list.  ScrollKeeper generates
and updates a number of files which store things like the contents list
describing all docs on the system.  Where does this file belong?  My
original proposal had everything under something like
prefix/share/scrollkeeper.  However, I don't think we can put files which
scrollkeeper edits under here can we?  Apparently /usr must be mountable
read-only.  I don't know if /share has the same requirements, but I'm
guessing it does.  My understanding is that we should use /var for these
files which scrollkeeper frequently modifies.

The original OMF files which the packages install (as well as the docs
themselves) are only read by ScrollKeeper, not moved or edited.

Dan