Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
"Offline help" with two links, the first is
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE#Installing_CHM_Help_for_The_RTL.2C_FCL_and_LCL_in_the_Lazarus_IDE
which I think everybody agrees is relevant (even if it needs work), the
second is a direct link to
http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/docview_ide_integration.shtml which- as part of
a completely different project- isn't.
Ah, ok, now I understand what you are talking about - though I'm using
an old version of Lazarus IDE, so I don't see what you see. Well, I
don't have commit access to SVN, so don't look at me. I guess some
Lazarus developer thought the DocView + INF solution could be useful
to somebody, so it was worth mentioning it. After all, I went through
the trouble of building lcl.inf and making it available for download
from the fpGUI file downloads section on SourceForge - and I don't
even use LCL. I guess it's a simple case of "I scratch your back, you
scratch my back". ;-)
And believe me, we all appreciate your hard work :-)
One thing does occur to me, and that is that it would probably be
appropriate if the Lazarus developers set up the .../docs/index.html
page so that all Wiki links were to individual pages (even if the Wiki
subsequently redirected these). That would ensure that minor changes to
the Wiki, even though self-consistent, couldn't screw up the Lazarus
IDE... after all they're separate projects so should have well-defined
interfaces.
Point of information: you're obviously correct in pointing out that .inf
files were used by OS/2, but IBM also used them for later versions of
PC-DOS. I've also noticed recently that datasets with the same extension
have a comparable function in at least some versions of IBM's CMS
operating system: I've made no attempt to determine if the formats are
remotely compatible (remote being the operative term, since the CMS ones
are obviously EBCDIC :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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