Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] ScrollServer

[David M. <da...@lu...>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:36:26AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, David Merrill wrote:
> 
> > Greetings ScrollKeeper Hackers,
> >
> > I'm putting together a Python based front end to the ScrollKeeper
> > database which I'm calling ScrollServer. It is in a preliminary stage
> > but anyone who wants to look at it is welcome to.
> >
> > ScrollServer loads the extended contents list into an object
> > hierarchy, and then provides an HTML interface to the documents using
> > the SimpleHTTPServer class which comes with Python.
> >
> > The idea is that rather than needing the Gnome Help Browser or
> > Konqueror to get to the database, you can use any browser, including
> > Lynx at the command line.
> >
> > Today, it only supports a single view (a hierarchical list of the
> > documents by their section) and local html files.
> 
> This sounds like a really great project.   I'm happy to see somebody
> working on this already :)

It has been fun so far, and it will be important to some of us who
want our help at the command line.

> > Questions:
> >
> > Do you plan to prepend file:// to the source file location?
> 
> Yes.  I think we left this out in early releases but I believe it was
> added at some point - perhaps the development version in CVS.

Can I get a cvs account set up?

> > When do you plan to support http:// (remote files)
> >
> > Do you plan to support ftp:// at any point?
> 
> This is not really high on my personal list of priorities.  However, I
> would expect that anybody who wants to add this could do so at any time.
> It certainly makes things more interesting and powerful.  It also makes
> things a bit more complicated because you have to consider the behavior
> when docs dissappear or one's entire internet connectivity goes down.

It's higher on mine. So I guess that means if I want it I have to do
it myself. :-)

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