Re: Modifying and solidifying contrib

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:42 , David Fetter wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> 6. they all need proper docs.  READMEs and the like are nowhere
>> near good
>> enough.
>
> Agreed.  I'm thinking a new major section in the SGML docs is in order
> with a subsection for each contrib/ piece underneath.

I agree re: new section. Are you thinking that all contrib docs would
be built automatically, even if the individual extensions (neé
contrib modules?) aren't installed? I think that would definitely
raise awareness of the extensions that are available.

I'd also like to see being able to add docs for non-core extensions
(e.g., ip4r) to the main documentation. Not sure what that would
involve: rebuilding the tocs and index, besides the new pages
themselves? Or perhaps just a rebuild of the complete docs? I haven't
had docs building on a local system for a couple of years, so I'm not
it a position currently to play around with this, but it's something
I'd love to learn how to do.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net