Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] What about the distributions?

[Eric B. <eb...@cy...>]

Le Samedi 28 Octobre 2000 00:34, Ali Abdin a écrit :
> > We can build a single one out of the "not-installed-yet" partial
> > databases.
>
> When do we do the "building" though? It is NOT acceptable to do the merging
> whenever we do an API function or whenever the "browser starts".
>
> We "could" make scrollkeeper a daemon (like oafd and gconfd). We could then
> have a 'scrollkeeper_init()' API function that would check if the daemon is
> running (if its not, it would execute it). You could also have a
> is_scrollkeeper_daemon_running or something. I think this is very similiar
> to the way oafd is done.
>
> The daemon would "merge" the not-installed-yet to the "single one" when
> started and every <X> amount of time
>
> This is up to Laszlo though.

If one examines how the existing help environments do, he notices that:
- man pages have a cron daemon which I suppose does some reindexing
- info pages require you to call an install-info utility from the postinstall 
and postuninstall scripts (and this sucks)

No one calls the reindexing function from the browser. This tends to confirm 
what you say.

> > You can't "make" people do what you want. If they don't want it, they
> > won't do it.
>
> Exactly - people have to /want/ to use Scrollkeeper

What do you do for that? Light candles and pray?

Let's be serious. No one will want to adapt thousand of spec files for a new 
help indexing system.

> > > If you want your docs
> > > to utilize scrollkeeper, then you will have to support it.
> >
> > "you" in the above sentence is two different persons.
>
> If you speaking about Debian, the package author is "usually" different
> than the packager.
>
> Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it is usually the opposite with RPMS. The
> author also handles the .spec files

????? This is simply completly wrong.

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