Josh Kuperman wrote: > When I install fink packages, the documentation gets > installed. Usually the man pages and the info docs (fortunately fink > can provide the texinfo package) if any get installed and are > accessible. A great many of the packages have html > documentation. Usually in /sw/share/doc/packagename or > /sw/share/doc/packagename/html. > > Would it be possible to make it standarder? I am running the default > Apache that comes with OSX, though I'm sure some are using the one > that comes with fink. I would like to make it so that I could - at > least from my home machine though I do, do a lot remotely so just > opening a file isn't as good - get a quick look at the html > documentation by typing http://localhost/finkdocs in my browser to get > a listing of all the docs html docs available and > http://localhost/finkdocs/packagename to get to the docs for a > particular package. It seems that some of the bigger more complicated > packages require the ability to view their html docs to get going.
I think this is a great idea for an enhancement to fink. Would you (or someone else) like to work on implementing it? Here's how it could go: You make a new fink package which sets up /sw/share/finkdocs and has some magic index.php file (or some other Web back of tricks) whose function is to display a page containing all links specified within other files in the directory that have some magic format. Then you ask fink developers to include an appropriately formatted file /sw/share/finkdocs/package.php in each of their packages which points to the starting point of the html documentation fpr that package. Your new package will probably have to make a symbolic link from within someplace like /Library/Web (I forget exactly where this goes) to /sw/share/finkdocs, which is normally not allowed, but in my opinion an exception would be warranted for a feature like this. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
