On Jul 22, 2008, at 03:42, Randall Wood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jul 20, 2008, at 09:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> The only "problem" with the chunked version is you can't >>> do a browser search of the whole document, but I'm not sure how many >>> people want that. >> >> I was initially going to suggest making a chunked guide because it's >> what I'm used to from other projects like php and mysql. But since >> then I've found it convenient to have it all on one page. I do use >> the browser search feature to quickly determine whether or not the >> guide mentions a particular topic at all before filing an enhancement >> request. >> >> I can learn to live with a Google search instead. If we make the >> chunked guide the default, we should provide a Google search box >> which searches just guide.macports.org. > > Why not place this across all MacPorts sites? > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=011837386708472035020:5lqtx6zp3qw
Searching across more than just guide.macports.org does not answer the question "Is this in the Guide?" It doesn't even answer the question "How do I use this?" For example, I might want search the Guide for "build.dir" to see what the default is. But using your search, I get a bunch of tickets where build.dir is mentioned, which is not what I wanted. If we remove the single-page Guide, or make the chunked Guide the preferred Guide, then we need to provide a way to search it, and only it. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
