Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] API to get the count of newly added omf files

[Dan M. <mu...@al...>]

Hi Raj,

These sound like good additions.  I would hope that not many packages
forget to run updatedb.  Especially since many users don't have root
access on their machines.  (It might make sense to have a crontab entry
installed to run updatedb daily, although I'm not sure how uniform cron is
handled across distributions and different flavors of Unix.)  However, I
think this utility is a good thing to have.

Further, we have had intentions to export an API for some time.  In fact,
many of the things which are now scripts should be put into a library.  
Your present work could be the start of the exported API and then we can
expand it from there.

Thanks for the contributions :)

Cheers,

Dan

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Rajkumar Sivasamy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is further in continuation of my earlier mail about "Indication of
> newly added omf file". On further analysis I wrote a small API say
> scrollkeeper_get_omffile_count() in update.c which will return the count
> of omf files that needs to be registered/unregistered with
> scrollkeeper_docs.
> 
> With the help of this API any help browser would know if there are any
> newly installed omf files that needs to be registered and if so it can
> prompt a message to the user asking him to run 'scrollkeeper_update' to
> register them.
> 
> 
> Issue in implementing the API:
> -----------------------------
> 
> I find that scrollkeeper doesn't have any API yet and hence there are no
> scrollkeeper .h files to export the API's, so for implementing this
> scrollkeeper_get_omffile_count() we would need to have a scrollkeeper .h
> file installed in standard path (like /usr/include/scrollkeeper/*).
> 
> Pls. let me know if we could move forward in implementing this API.
> 
> 
> Note: Am not sure if my previous mail sent on '25th Apr 2003' was
> delivered to this list as I couldn't see it in the archives list
> "http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2014500&forum_id=4112",
> hence am attaching my previous mail with it.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Raj.