Hi Scott
I can probably provide a quick summary.
The French team took the code from the branch, updated it and then
turned it into an OFBiz addon which lives in their ofbizextra
repository. They highlighted that their addon should be treated as the
latest code. There are some dependencies with some of their other OFBiz
addons that they created (e.g. portlet widget...) and it is managed by
Ivy and their Addon Manager application.
You are also right in the sense that the help documents need to be
compiled into HTML at build time to be able to be displayed. (I've been
recently using the Webhelp addon in relation to another project using
13.07. :-)
One of the reasons I thought the plugin option would be good - is
because it effectively is one already as it was never integrated into
the trunk.
Thanks
Sharan
On 21/07/16 15:18, Scott Gray wrote:
I haven't been watching closely enough to have a preference. There's
millions of jira comments and Jacques alludes to some of the work being in
the trunk already, but there's also a branch? A summary of where we are
right now would be handy. I'm sure I remember objecting to compile-time
documentation builds in response to Tom's work way back when, but I can't
seem to find that discussion on the tickets.
Regards
Scott
On 22 July 2016 at 01:06, Jacopo Cappellato <
[email protected]> wrote:
My preference is either #2 or #3
Jacopo
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
With https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7906 "Have a Gradle
build file for the cmssite component" Pierre Smits suggests to put back
the
jars needed by the Webhelp .
We already discussed lengthy about Webhelp solution and I know some
persons are not for it, at least as it's currently integrated in OFBiz.
Within https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6644 "Webhelp
umbrella
task" Sharan said 4 days ago "I'd like to look at the Webhelp again in
relation to the new trunk with Gradle to see how it could be
incorporated."
I also know that the Nereides team (Nicolas and Gil are among them) has a
beside solution (called addon) based on the Webhelp work. There is also a
Webhelp branch
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/webhelp-2012-12-07 .
So I'd like to know what are the opinions of the community members about
this subject. Should we?
1) Keep the Webhelp as is in OFBiz, improve and really use it (so begin
by
applying OFBIZ-7906 patch)
2) Put the Webhelp in a (next coming) plugin component (ie out of the
cmssite component). This would release the dependency to the cmssite
component but I fear this needs more work but I'd need confirmation from
the Nereides team.
3) Drop the Webhelp
I hope nobody is for the point 3, because I remember the hard work we did
with Tom (Burns) and the current help is ugly compared with what the
Webhelp can deliver (ie more than what we saw already which was already a
great achievement IMO)
Thanks in advance for your feedback
Jacques
