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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: mpjpeg fails on wansview 1080p (Kenneth Lavrsen)
   2. Re: How the documentation on the Motion wiki is   working
      (Kenneth Lavrsen)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:01:22 +0200
From: Kenneth Lavrsen <kenn...@lavrsen.dk>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] mpjpeg fails on wansview 1080p
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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A little advice

If you add too much heavyweight code, Motion will no longer run as 16 threads 
on a machine that does other things or run on a Raspberry Pi.

There is an open source project called Zone Alarm which is much more feature 
rich. Don't try to copy them.

The idea of Motion has always been to keep as a background daemon which uses 
all its computer power on the detection and creating images and movies.

I also kept the config human readable and human hackable. Turn it into for 
example xml and you loose everybody. The code that parse the configs is pretty 
simple and it works fine. If people want fancy GUI search no more. Zonealarm is 
a great project with all the bells and whistles. I like all that Dr Dave has 
done with the project which is why I am happy to let him continue the work.

The http control code that Angel and I wrote is impossible to maintain so I 
cannot blame anyone for wanting to rewrite that. But don't compile in a full 
webserver because then it is over with the lightweight daemon that can run on 
wifi-router hardware, a small Arms box like the original Raspberries. The main 
quality of Motion is that is does so much with so little. If you turn Motion 
into a copy of Zonealarm then the project becomes pointless. There are too many 
open source projects that just copy each other and it all becomes same same. 
Motion is a unique little gem. The way the little daemon can be put together 
with other small programs that pipes things in and out. I have seen so many 
innovative idea that people have done with Motion that I would never have 
dreamt of and it is only possible because the program is a bit like the old 
Unix tools. Many small tools that can be combined to do things.

Bu there are plenty of things to do in Motion and it is not at all the perfect 
final program.
The motion detection algos could really be developed much further. Face 
detection. Human body detection. That is where the fun stuff is. The live 
stream could be enhanced to something that can better be streamed in HTML6. Or 
did you do that already and I have not come to that yet? Better support for 
Netcams that require special auth or does not support mjpeg etc etc. Or 
external triggers using passive infrared detectors on a raspberry pi. I have 
plenty of ideas that pops up.

Another thing I always encouraged was that people write small tools for Motion. 
So tools to configure Motion written for example in Python is a splendid thing 
and would only be run when you need it. But on the other hand do not give up 
the ability to just set the config in the plain text human config files. You 
should not need to have Python installed on a box to use Motion.

Motion will automatically put all common options in motion.conf when you save 
the config via the webinterface. Only the unique options goes into the thread 
configs. That is an important feature as it makes it so much simpler to 
maintain the thread settings. Note that detail. I have often been experimenting 
with settings in the threads and it became a mess. One simple action of writing 
the configs and all is cleaned up including added the help texts for each 
option. That is just so cool and so helpful.

Motion is written in plain C because that can be compiled on anything and all 
the low level bit manipulation and motion detection requires that the code is 
super optimal. Change it to a high level object oriented language and you kill 
it. We spent a lot of time optimizing the runtime of the detection. The 
libraries you choose to process images and movies have to be chosen with care. 
Ffmpeg has been a pain to use because of the constant API changes and lack of 
proper release management. It has gotten better the past years but 10 years ago 
it was a pain. But it was lightening fast compared to anything else so that is 
why we used it. And all plain C. So watch out for performance.

Kenneth

> On 07 Aug 2016, at 09:25, John Baker <jba...@dryfish.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Totally agree.
> 
> (1) is easy.
> 
> (2) Coming from a Python/Java background, I would not expect anyone to
> be writing HTTP code in 2016 (or 2010). Rip it all out and replace it
> with a good library; I guess whatever is used by curl or wget.
> 
> I think one of your objectives should be to remove as much home grown
> code as possible, whether config file reading or HTTP.
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016, at 08:08 AM, tosiara wrote:
>> So here we have two issues:
>> 1. motion should better handle 401 or any non-200 http status and show
>> user
>> friendly error
>> 2. digest auth support
>> 
>> The first would probably be an easy code change
>> But the second would be a challenge. We can implement digest auth. Or.
>> There was a discussion already to replace all the manual http code by
>> some
>> web library that provides better support and better maintained. But that
>> requires also quite a lot of efforts to change the code
>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:25 AM, John Baker <jba...@dryfish.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So being more awake this morning, I now spot the problem. The camera
>>> wishes to use HTTP digest authentication, which I guess motion doesn't
>>> support (another on the todo list Mr Dave / Joseph ?:).
>>> 
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2384230/what-is-digest-authentication
>>> 
>>> Example:
>>> 
>>>> HEAD /mjpeg/stream.cgi?chn=0 HTTP/1.1
>>>> Host: 192.168.0.102
>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.49.1
>>>> Accept: */*
>>> < HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
>>> < WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="IPCamera Login",
>>> nonce="f35b3a998c0b964d21d99da3f8880f14", qop="auth"
>>> 
>>>> HEAD /mjpeg/stream.cgi?chn=0 HTTP/1.1
>>>> Host: 192.168.0.102
>>>> Authorization: Digest username="visitor", realm="IPCamera Login", nonce="
>>> f35b3a998c0b964d21d99da3f8880f14", uri="/mjpeg/stream.cgi?chn=0", cnonce="
>>> MWY1N2M3NmUzMjNlODIxM2ZjMzAxYTcyNTIzMjA0MTY=", nc=00000001, qop=auth,
>>> response="3bb6cbc93342432432421104ebeed5c3a"
>>>> User-Agent: curl/7.49.1
>>>> Accept: */*
>>> < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>> 
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 11:02:49 +0200
From: Kenneth Lavrsen <kenn...@lavrsen.dk>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] How the documentation on the Motion wiki is
        working
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Joseph. Yes. I will do that when I am done with the updates. Easy to do

Kenneth

> On 07 Aug 2016, at 10:33, Joseph Heenan <jos...@heenan.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kenneth,
> 
> Thanks for the info!
> 
> I?m happy to setup an external backup - it sounds like the easiest way might 
> be if you could do a nightly tgz and then I can grab that from a http url?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joseph
> 
>> On 6 Aug 2016, at 13:30, Kenneth Lavrsen <kenn...@lavrsen.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh forgot backup
>> 
>> Foswiki has all its files as plan text files. So it is easy to back-up in 
>> many different ways.
>> 
>> A simple cron job can tgz the whole Motion guide in seconds either shoot it 
>> off or place it where it can be picked up as a simple html download. And the 
>> space required is none. The text zipped is kilobytes in size. Only the 
>> images take a little space. It is nothing.
>> And Foswiki itself is open source and can be downloaded and installed on any 
>> Linux box. All plugins used are open source from the Foswiki site.
>> 
>> I take daily backups myself but they are inhouse. If my house burns... 
>> 
>> Then it smells like pork roast when my body burns and the data is lost
>> Kenneth
>> 
>> 
>>> On 06 Aug 2016, at 11:31, Joseph Heenan <jos...@heenan.me.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Kenneth,
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for the detailed explanation. I have read it and it makes sense 
>>> to me, though I have yet to try it. (I?m no stranger to foswiki?s macros.) 
>>> I guess we may want to document some of this process in a wiki page 
>>> somewhere.
>>> 
>>> I have two questions:
>>> 
>>> 1) Should the wiki reflect the current release version or the latest 
>>> development version? (I hope the latter is the answer, as otherwise it 
>>> makes for a lot of work at release time, and there are a lot of advantages 
>>> to the release process being lightweight.)
>>> 
>>> 2) Would it be a good idea to setup an offsite backup of the wiki? I?m 
>>> conscious that if it is an ingrained part of our development process, we 
>>> should make sure we can easily reproduce it if the worst happens. (I can 
>>> donate server space for an offsite backup to be stored, but I presume the 
>>> only good way to create a backup is that it is pushed from your server.)
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Joseph
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 5 Aug 2016, at 22:21, Kenneth Lavrsen <kenn...@lavrsen.dk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I forgot to write 
>>>> 
>>>> And now the man page
>>>> 
>>>> In front of the section that starts with "it is a bit hidden"
>>>> 
>>>>> On 05 Aug 2016, at 23:07, Kenneth Lavrsen <kenn...@lavrsen.dk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>> 
>>>>> Let me introduce what is under the hood of the project documentation of 
>>>>> Motion
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ignore all the bug report, feature request, patch features. They are 
>>>>> awful and could be implemented much better but there is no point that I 
>>>>> try to do that because Github offers the same out of the box in a 
>>>>> familiar and superiour way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But on the documentation side the Foswiki features are pretty cool and 
>>>>> not at all supported by Github or Sourceforge
>>>>> 
>>>>> You probably all know the Motion guide.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You go to http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome. You 
>>>>> click in the Motion Guide and you land 
>>>>> onhttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuide
>>>>> 
>>>>> From there you have several choices.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The first is the Installation. And if you ever try to edit that page it 
>>>>> has a short text and then followed by
>>>>> 
>>>>> %TOC%
>>>>> 
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"MotionOverview"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"KnownProblems"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"InstallOverview"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"PrepareInstall"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"ConfigureScript"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"MakeInstall"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"UpgradingFromOlderVersion"}%
>>>>> %INCLUDE{"ErrorLogging"}%
>>>>> 
>>>>> All the %SOMETHING% are macros. %TOC% is a table of content. And 
>>>>> %INCLUDE.... simply includes pages. So all it is is a modular approach so 
>>>>> you do not have to sit and edit an evil long page. So to edit the 
>>>>> documentation you go to the sub page and start typing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The markup language is simple.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---+ Headline level 1
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---++ Headline level 2
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---+++ Headline level 3
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some *bold* text. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> WikiWords like WoW, HitMeGood etc automatically link to a page with that 
>>>>> name. WikiWord starts with upper case followed by lower case followed by 
>>>>> uppercase and you have a WikiWord. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> WikiWord
>>>>> 
>>>>> Notawikiword (not capitals in the middle)
>>>>> 
>>>>> notAwikiWord (does not start with a capital)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wiki2Word is a wikiword because number count as lower case.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ALSoaWikiWord2Go - Also a wiki word. The minute the parser saw ALSoaW it 
>>>>> because a wiki word.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If the page exists it links to it. If the page does not exist it suggest 
>>>>> that you create it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> !IDoNotWantThisAsWikiWord is not a wikiword. The ! cancels the 
>>>>> wikiword-ness but the ! is invisible.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are two edit modes. Normal Edit is a WYSIWYG editor which is OK. 
>>>>> Edit Wikitext is for us geeks that want to control what we do. If you 
>>>>> edit existing text you quickly see how it works
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tables use the syntax
>>>>> 
>>>>> | *Heading text* | *Second Heading* |
>>>>> | text here | more cell text here |
>>>>> | hello | here I am |
>>>>> 
>>>>> Very simple.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Back to the documentation
>>>>> 
>>>>> Getting It Running is also a bunch of includes. Some are pretty smart and 
>>>>> intelligent.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Like the table of options. Noone had written that table. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The table gets generated in the included page ConfigFileOptions ( 
>>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigFileOptions )
>>>>> 
>>>>> It has code that looks like this
>>>>> 
>>>>> %TABLE{valign="top" headeralign="left" columnwidths="170,240"}%
>>>>> | *Option* | *Range/Values<br />Default* | *Description* |
>>>>> %SEARCH{ "Group != 'Obsolete'" topic="ConfigOption*" casesensitive="on" 
>>>>> type="query" nosearch="on" nototal="on" order="formfield(Option)"  
>>>>> excludetopic="ConfigOptionTemplate, ConfigOptionForm" format="| 
>>>>> [[$topic][$formfield(Option)]]| Values: $formfield(Range)<br />Default: 
>>>>> $formfield(Default) | $formfield(Description) |"}%
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is going on?
>>>>> 
>>>>> First line is a Macro %TABLE... which defines how the table looks like. 
>>>>> Mostly allignment of text and columnwidths
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then | *Option* | *Range/Values<br />Default* | *Description* |
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which is he header of the table. Notice how you can use HTML in the 
>>>>> markup. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> And then the smart feature - the formatted SEARCH.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The SEARCH looks up all pages that start with ConfigOption. Note the 
>>>>> topic="ConfigOption*" where * is a wild card.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And it exclude the topics where Group != 'Obsolete'
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is this? Is it a database? Well almost. I will get back to that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are some more options for the SEARCH that controls how it presents 
>>>>> data. In this case it basically means "shut up with all your noise" and 
>>>>> finally there is the format parameter which defines how the pages 
>>>>> (topics) are presented.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Each found topic becomes a table row.
>>>>> 
>>>>> format="| [[$topic][$formfield(Option)]]| Values: $formfield(Range)<br 
>>>>> />Default: $formfield(Default) | $formfield(Description) |"}%
>>>>> 
>>>>> So the format is a row where
>>>>> 
>>>>> First column  is a link to the page that defines the parameter.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Second column is a combination of the field values for Range and Default 
>>>>> values.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Third column is the description
>>>>> 
>>>>> So each motion.conf option has its own wikipage. The naming convention is 
>>>>> ConfigOptionOptionName where OptionName is a WikiWord version of the 
>>>>> option. Simple. It does not have to be but that is how I defined it and 
>>>>> it makes it easy to find the right page
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now to the config option pages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Let us take an example. The option "height" from motion conf is defined 
>>>>> onhttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionHeight. So 
>>>>> the topic (Pages are called topics in Foswiki - horrible I know) is 
>>>>> ConfigOptionHeight.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When you look at it you see a plain descriptive text
>>>>> 
>>>>> And below a table which is a Form. The structure of this form is defined 
>>>>> in ConfigOptionForm which looks like 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Form Topic for motion.conf options
>>>>> 
>>>>> Name:     Type:   Size:   Values: Tooltip message:
>>>>> Option    text    50              Option Name - always lower case and 
>>>>> with underscore between words
>>>>> Type      select  1       Boolean, Integer, String, Discrete Strings      
>>>>> Date type of option
>>>>> Range     text    70      min: x, max: y  Range for integers, or list of 
>>>>> allowed strings/values
>>>>> Default   text    50              Default value when option is commented 
>>>>> out
>>>>> Description       textarea        80x4            Short Description
>>>>> Group     select  1       Runtime Options, Capture Device, Round Robin, 
>>>>> Motion Detection Settings, Image File Output, Movie File Output, 
>>>>> Snapshots, Text Display, Target Directories and Filenames, Live Webcam 
>>>>> Server, HTML Based Control, Tracking, External Commands, Common Options 
>>>>> For Database, Database Options For MySQL, Database Options For 
>>>>> PostgreSQL, Video Loopback Device, Debugging for Programmers, Thread, 
>>>>> Obsolete     Option group from motion.conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> So in reality it is like a primitive database where each option is a 
>>>>> record in a database and the database fields are
>>>>> 
>>>>> Option: The name of the option
>>>>> Type: One of the values Boolean, Integer, String, Discrete Strings
>>>>> Range: is a plain text field where you define the range of valid values 
>>>>> if there is a range
>>>>> Default: is the default value
>>>>> Group: Is one of the values - Runtime Options, Capture Device, Round 
>>>>> Robin, Motion Detection Settings, Image File Output, Movie File Output, 
>>>>> Snapshots, Text Display, Target Directories and Filenames, Live Webcam 
>>>>> Server, HTML Based Control, Tracking, External Commands, Common Options 
>>>>> For Database, Database Options For MySQL, Database Options For 
>>>>> PostgreSQL, Video Loopback Device, Debugging for Programmers, Thread, 
>>>>> Obsolete
>>>>> 
>>>>> The group is used to be able to autogenerate the documentation and 
>>>>> present the different options grouped together. If you need a new group 
>>>>> you edit the ConfigOptionForm topic and the new value will be in the pick 
>>>>> list
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> To create a new ConfigOptionXXXXX topic you create it first and then add 
>>>>> the ConfigOptionForm to the topic and it then gets the nice structured 
>>>>> database like fields to it. Very simple once you get the idea.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Once you have the the config options defined as one topic for each option 
>>>>> only fantasy limits the ways you can present the data using the SEARCH 
>>>>> macro.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And this is what I do in the Motion Guide. In 
>>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigFileOptions it 
>>>>> creates the table of all config options.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Back to the Motion Guide. Now that you know what is going on let us look 
>>>>> athttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideBasicFeatures.
>>>>> Again just a bunch of INCLUDEs.
>>>>> And inside each included topic I have a plain text introduction. And then 
>>>>> followed by a SEARCH that presents the the options based on a section 
>>>>> criteria based on Group value. I can see I need to simplify the SEARCHes 
>>>>> a little because there is a newer query syntax available now in Foswiki 
>>>>> that works a bit like SQL. I will update all those.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But the principle is the same all over. The documention is a mix of 
>>>>> plaintext and reuse of the ConfigOptionXXXX topics.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideAlphabeticalOptionReferenceManual
>>>>>  simply lists ALL the config options in one big document.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> And now to the man page
>>>> 
>>>>> It is a bit hidden. It is under 
>>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MiscellaneousInformation 
>>>>> and there you 
>>>>> findhttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionOptionsAlphabeticalManpage
>>>>> 
>>>>> And what is under the hood of that?
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionOptionsAlphabeticalManpage?raw=on
>>>>> 
>>>>> First some plain text Main page intro. Nothing fancy and all within <pre> 
>>>>> and </pre> tags that makes Foswiki show the text as raw code but still 
>>>>> interprets macros.
>>>>> 
>>>>> %STARTATTACH...% and %ENDATTACH...% enclose the text we want saved in a 
>>>>> man page file.
>>>>> Each time you edit and save the page a new man page is created and 
>>>>> attached to the topic. Yes you can also attach files to the wikipages. In 
>>>>> this case a plugin does it automatically each time you save.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Inside the pre tags you find a SEARCH macro.
>>>>> 
>>>>> %SEARCH{ "Group != 'Obsolete'" type="query" topic="ConfigOption*" 
>>>>> casesensitive="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" order="formfield(Option)"  
>>>>> excludetopic="ConfigOptionTemplate, ConfigOptionForm, 
>>>>> ConfigOptionFfmpegFilename, ConfigOptionMinimumGap" format=".TP$n().B 
>>>>> $formfield(Option) 
>>>>> $percntCALC{\"$LOWER($formfield(Type))\"}$percnt$n()Values: 
>>>>> $formfield(Range) / Default: 
>>>>> $formfield(Default)$n().br$n()$formfield(Description)"}%
>>>>> 
>>>>> It again find all the options and present them neatly in a format that 
>>>>> makes sense in a man page.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In this case it presents all options except the ones that are in marked 
>>>>> as Obsolete in the Group field. So now you know how to hide the options 
>>>>> that are removed in the new versions. Change the group field to Obsolete 
>>>>> and it is hidden from all views but can be presented on a list of 
>>>>> obsolete options. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The Macros in Foswiki are parsed top to down, left to right, inside out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So when you want to put macros inside the format string of the SEARCH you 
>>>>> have to hide the macros (inside out) until the search is run. The $percnt 
>>>>> or $percent is the way you delay the macro expansion inside SEARCH.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So first the SEARCH finds all the option topics, then creates the table 
>>>>> rows, replaceing all the $percnt with "%" and when the SEARCH is complete 
>>>>> the the now visible macros get parsed. In this case the CALC macro which 
>>>>> is a swiss army knife of small functions. Here is changes text to lower 
>>>>> case.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not expect you guys to understand all this. But you can easily edit 
>>>>> the pages that are already there.
>>>>> With a little help you can create new config option topics and they then 
>>>>> automatically appear in the Motion guide in the right chapter based on 
>>>>> the Group field.
>>>>> And if you remove an option you change it to the obsolete group.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When you want to generate a new man page - just look 
>>>>> uphttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionOptionsAlphabeticalManpage.
>>>>>  Edit the page and save it. And then download the updated "motion.1" 
>>>>> attachment. Easy, right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> You edit one config option file one place. And all the many versions of 
>>>>> the options tables, the reference manual, the detailed manual, the man 
>>>>> pages - everything is up to date. THAT is WHY the Motion guide is on 
>>>>> Foswiki. It takes a little effort to get the head around it but then it 
>>>>> is easy to maintain
>>>>> 
>>>>> And I will gladly do that. I am using Foswiki at work every day. I just 
>>>>> need you guys to ping me when you need to update something that is not 
>>>>> just a simple edit of an existing page
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The motion guide which is included when you build Motion (at least from 
>>>>> the old SVN version) simply downloads the HTML 
>>>>> fromhttp://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideOneLargeDocument
>>>>> 
>>>>> And it does it in a mode where all the menus and shit is removed and you 
>>>>> just get a plain HTML file. You can see some grumpy users that added a 
>>>>> note that the file is out of date and that people have to read the code 
>>>>> to find out how it works. That is so wrong and not easy if you do not 
>>>>> read C code.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Long email. But the few of you that are interested should not understand 
>>>>> how it works. I will update the SEARCH syntax used to query search 
>>>>> instead of the old regex searches used which are a bit dodgy to read.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kenneth
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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