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

[Rajkumar S. <raj...@wi...>]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your comments and motivation.


> 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.

- Yes, I do agree that packages should run updatedb by default, but
there are some odd cases where it fails to run it, in those cases the
help browser can make use of this API to know if there are any
unregistered omf files, if there are any it could popup a message
saying:

"Newly installed app. detected, pls. ask your admin to run
scrollkeeper_update to view the help doc's for the app".

 
> 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 :)

- Sure :) Once I finish with the API I'll post in the list for
review/approval.


Thanks & Regards,
Raj.