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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: texshow out of sync?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:32:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D651B0.9090804@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311084136.GA5120@gaston.couberia.bzh>



Peter Münster wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>>> What about merging the 2 texshow databases (web and perl), and then
>>> maintaining only one unique database?
>> texshow.pl can't always go to the web to fetch (or even check the
>> filestamp) of its database, that would be dead-slow.  So that
>> would mean pre-packaging the database in the distribution, and
>> that in turn means it will need a maintainer ...
> 
> Hello Taco,
> 
> Do the 2 databases have the same format?

Probably not, texshow-web is a Rails application so it will probably
use an actual SQL database for the additional information. Patrick will
know for sure.

texshow.pl is uses the cont-XX.xml files from the core distribution,
and, optionally, a second XML file per interface for the explanations
and examples etc. The format for that second file is:

<cd:explanations>
    <cd:explanation name="<cmdname>" [type="environment"] >
     <cd:description>...</cd:description>
     <cd:comment>...</cd:comment>
     <cd:example>...</cd:example> <!-- can be repeated -->
   </cd:explanation>
   ... <!-- more explanations -->
</cd:explanations>



> If yes, I could be the maintainer, and copy in a regular time interval the
> web-database to some svn repository or elsewhere for the distribution.
> Then texshow.pl would see the same database, just not the latest version.
> And whenever you or other people add new commands and descriptions, they do
> it on the web only.
> 
> If no, then we could discuss other options...
> 
> Best wishes, Peter
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-11  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11  7:47 Peter Münster
2008-03-11  8:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-03-11  8:41   ` Peter Münster
2008-03-11  9:32     ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]

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