Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] category codes

[Malcolm T. <ma...@co...>]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:06, Laszlo Kovacs - Sun Ireland wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It's been a long time, but recently I had to look at some issues the Sun 
> docs team had with Scrollkeeper.

Welcome back (even if only briefly). :-)

Grrr. These would be the issues that they have not put into the bug
tracker so that nobody else can see them or fix them? I recently
received some patches from Glynn Foster that have been bouncing around
Sun for a while, too, that I had never seen before. Please, please,
please encourage whoever works with Scrollkeeper at Sun to use the bug
tracker so that things get fixed at the source.

I have reduced the number of outstanding bugs in the tracker by a large
number recently (from around 50 to about a dozen), so they do get read
and acted upon.

> I noticed that install.c:add_doc_to_content_list() uses the titles 
> content list entries to insert docs into them. I think this is exactly 
> what the category codes (in the OMF files) have been designed for. The 
> category codes should identify the sections where docs should be 
> inserted, they should be the same for all the locales. Titles are 
> different in every locale so they either don't work or impose extra 
> translation effort on package maintainers (category entries in OMF files 
> need translation).
> 
> Or am I missing something?

This sounds convincing. I'll have a look at it. I thought it should be
working that way, too, so if it's not it may just be a bug.

Cheers,
Malcolm