I've implemented some very basic docset support on my local machine. The main problem I've encountered is a significant startup slowdown when there are huge docsets in the books directory. For example, the Java_SE7 docset has about 50,000 tokens which are loaded into memory by the DevHelp on startup. The startup time with Java docset enabled is about 15 seconds on my laptop with a Core i7 CPU and an SSD disk. The search is still quite fast. As I can see, it's not so easy to avoid this problem at the moment. Zeal, for example, uses the sqlite database directly to not load all the symbols into memory.
I still can improve my first draft a little bit and prepare a pull request in a few days. But a more efficient approach is obviously required. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to devhelp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242467 Title: Support docsets Status in “devhelp” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Dash and Zeal use a documentation file format called "docset" and these 2 apps already support quite a few documentations. It would be really great if devhelp could support docsets and therefore expand it's documentation listings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devhelp/+bug/1242467/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
