> To clear things up once and for all :) Wez started livedocs on his own
> machine without any revision control, and then some curious people
> peaked in (Derick Ilia and myself).

And me, actually..

I was able to convince Wez lately that livedocs
> should be moved to cvs.php.net, now we are waiting to Wez to provide a
> tgz of the module, so someone from the system guys can import it into
> cvs.php.net

Ah, okay, this was the missing information.

 those who would like to
> contribute code will get access (keeping in mind that we would like to
> keep it a general tool to be useable for all the PHP subprojects and
> others too).

Hooray :)  cos I got tired of adapting it w/o cvs karma..  it meant
re-writing locally every time there was a change in the core version.
That's why I lost interest.

> Livedocs is still in development, it is very true. But unless we put
> effort into development and testing it will not become better. I would
> not like to propose it to be used without more advancement and testing...

I'm very glad to hear it.

<snip>
> Hm, I am sure the phpdoc build system would not work with the
> configure.in file outside of cygwin, even if the tools are available as
> native windows .exe files, since the configure system is tailored for
> unix tools...

No, we still need cygwin, it's just that xsltproc is available as a cygwin
package and I put the stylesheets into cvs.php.net now.  Incidentally,
cygwin's improved massively over the last couple of years - go for a minimum
install, fire up a build and see what's missing, download it, try again &
etc.  Even over dialup, it doesn't take too long to set this up now, maybe
an hour or so.  PHP is the only executable we need to add to /bin because we
use it for part of the processing (PHP4, but 5 works fine too).

> >>Since livedocs will hopefully make most of the current make targets
> >>obsolote, the build system will be much smaller, and easier to port to
> >>another environment (eg. Phing).

We don't have too many 'make' targets here either at present, that's not a
big consideration.  The bigger issue's whether to keep company with the
mothership, and to what extent.

> Actually I would not like to wait more, but put effort into making it
> working... Since I also work at the PHP websites, and I get more and
> more frustrated because of the missing onsite search,

I've stopped working on php-gtk-web altogether until our systems
difficulties are sorted out.  Hopefully with imajes back on the scene this
won't take many more weeks.  But yes, I know what you're saying.

 and the ugly HTML
> produced by the DSSSL sheets

no comment ;)

 I would like to make livedocs work for the
> PHP sites ASAP (with public beta testing before it could replace the
> current docs :). ASAP means "in the coming months" :))

Wez, do your stuff! ;)
>
> Goba
>
- Steph

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