What we have in trunk is not the work suggested by Tom. Tom's work is only in
the webhelp-2012-12-07 branch, and in a Neereides addon.
So I proposed to enhance the current (ugly) help by incorporating the branch or (preferably?) Neereides addon. This is my point 1, the 2 other points
are unrelated with the branch and concern only the current help.
The point 2 is a proposition to have the current help in its own component and not mixed with cmssite (a wish). This could be done before and/or
independently from enhancing the current help.
The point 3 is a proposition to remove the current help
Then in the conclusion (flashback to point 1) I hoped we would not completely drop the current help because, even if ugly, IIRW Tom's work enhances
the current help. So it would be needed for the merge, but I'd have to check that (was in 2012):
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1418622
I hope it clarifies what I must say was not very clear
Jacques
Le 21/07/2016 à 15:18, Scott Gray a écrit :
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
