What you are talking about is what I was looking for as a starting
point. It would give a list of addons, and within each addon, a list of
scripts.
Then, for each script someone would need to extract the entry points and
add a description of what the entry point does. Maybe this could be
automated a little bit, but there would be a lot of hand work in any case.
With the list of scripts on the Wiki, though, there might be many
volunteers to fill in the entry points.
Here's an idea: start with just a three-column table: the list of
Addons, a description taken from the Manifest, and an empty column of
keywords. Put it on the Wiki, and give people a month to fill in the
description and keywords (I would think the addon writers would do this,
mostly). After the month, create the list of scripts within each Addon,
with the keywords attached. After that, we have to hope for volunteers.
Perhaps there would be a way to extract information from comments, if
there is a standard format for the comments (like scriptdoc).
Henry Rich
On 10/31/2017 3:01 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
Well...
Conceptually speaking, the list of packages are the unique path name part of
require 'general/dirutils'
(#~ +./@('manifest.ijs' E. ])@>) {."1 dirtree '~addons'
And, conceptually, some (but not all) of the information that the wiki
needs can be obtained from those manifests.
The way things are right now, a person would need to go through each
manifest, and spend maybe a minute or five reading through it and its
references to build up what would be useful on the wiki page. So,
maybe an afternoon to build a draft page? And, after that and some
feedback, we could maybe have an idea about what should be in future
manifests to make this process better?
I am not quite volunteering, yet - I'm still shaping out an idea of
where we are trying to head...
Thanks,
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