[Scrollkeeper-devel] Release 0.0.1 of Scrollkeeper

[Laszlo K. <las...@su...>]

Hello,

This is the official announcement of the first ever Scrollkeeper release
0.0.1. The tarball and source and binary RPMs can be found at:

ftp://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/pub/scrollkeeper/

An example application called hello-world-1 is also available there
(tarball, source and binary RPM). 

This version of Scrollkeeper implements proposal #3 for this project.
The proposal itself is here:

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/6429/2000/11/50/4650283/

Two things to be noted:

1. The output of Scrollkeeper is a set of XML files. They are in
$localstatedir/lib/scrollkeeper. A patch was submitted for the new Gnome
Help System (Nautilus, Hyperbola component) to support Scrollkeeper.
This is the only help browser that supports Scrollkeeper at the moment.
The patch was accepted, but the reviewers requested this release
announcement (and tarball and RPMs) for the integration. As soon as that
patch is integrated, the system should be fully working (I will send an
email here when the integration happens.

2. In order to have Scrollkeeper working properly it's localstatedir has
to be /var. This should be the same for any applications that rely on
Scrollkeeper handling their OMF files. This is a general recomandation
for any application running on Linux anyway.

Thank you for everybody who helped in the various stages of the project.
Please give it a try and tell us how you find it.

Thanks,

Laszlo