Actually that¹s a good idea, David. Reusing Derby for the documentation.

- Raju


Am 25.05.2008 22:40 Uhr schrieb "Sebastian Wagner" unter
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> okay, so lets try this.
> 
> I guess this will be integrated into the current doctool
> (http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/LzxdocTool), or will the process of generating
> Documentation change?
> 
> 
> sebastian
> 
> 
> 2008/5/25 David Temkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Note that we are about to add a simple database to the OL distro -- Apache
>> Derby -- in order to put LzProject in the distro. That might be a good
>> starting point rather than files.
>> 
>> - D.
>> 
>> 
>> On May 25, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Sebastian Wagner wrote:
>> 
>>> maybe its better to store the comments in files instead of a database? That
>>> way people do not need to set up a database connection for the doc-tool. If
>>> you redistribute the Docs with the Platform people could run it out of the
>>> box without configuration.
>>>  You just have to figure out something clever for the naming strategy of
>>> these files and folders.
>>> For the iFrame you could take simple velocity-templates and people can style
>>> them in their needed design.
>>> 
>>> sebastian
>>>  
>>> 2008/5/25 Henry Minsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>  I wonder if we could make a general purpose "doc comment" tool, which is
>>>> an iframe or something in  each doc page that fetches,displays, and accepts
>>>> comments. It could store the doc comments in a database, keyed by some
>>>> keyword from the doc page. That would de-couple it from the doc tools
>>>> chain,
>>>>  and also potentially make it useful for other applications as well...
>>>> 
>>>> So for example the doc page for  "datapath" might have this in it,
>>>> generated by the doc tools
>>>> 
>>>> <iframe src="doc_comment_page.jsp?key=datapath">
>>>>  
>>>> and the doc_comment_page.jsp would generate an html page dynamically
>>>> drawing the comments from something very simple like a file directory tree.
>>>> 
>>>> There would need to be a simple admin tool to either moderate submitted
>>>> comments, or else
>>>>  be able to query for recent comments and delete bogus ones.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Sebastian Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> sorry for my late reply,
>>>>> I think there is no such tool around.
>>>>> Would it make sense to start such a project (lzx doctool with dynamic
>>>>> comment extension?!) ?
>>>>>  
>>>>> sebastian
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2008/5/22 P T Withington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>>> Yes, we'd all like something like this.  People have cited, for instance,
>>>>>> the way the PHP manual works.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  The reference manual is now generated by docbook, so if there is an
>>>>>> open-source tool that someone knows of that can provide this facility,
>>>>>> we'd look into it!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  On 2008-05-22, at 08:17 EDT, Sebastian Wagner wrote:
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  hi,
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  I often would like to add some comments to the documentation and I
>>>>>>> think I'm
>>>>>>>  not the only one. For example if you use a function xy or LzView and
>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>>  that something is special about it but no comment on it in the
>>>>>>> reference, it
>>>>>>>  would be helpfull if there is a *add Comment* function next to each
>>>>>>> Method.
>>>>>>>  Maybe these comments can go into the *main-docs* and reviewed in some
>>>>>>> kind
>>>>>>>  of cycle.
>>>>>>>  I know that the docs are auto-generated by a tool and it will by some
>>>>>>> kind
>>>>>>>  of tricky to link comments into it but I think without comments you
>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>  loose the *voice of the community* :) and a lot of experience people
>>>>>>> got who
>>>>>>>  are using it day-by-day.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  sebastian
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  -- 
>>>>>>>  Sebastian Wagner
>>>>>>>  http://www.webbase-design.de
>>>>>>>  http://openmeetings.googlecode.com
>>>>>>>  http://www.laszlo-forum.de
>>>>>>>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> 


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