Day: April 30, 2007

  • Library.gnome.org alpha 2

    For those not following #docs on IRC and/or the gnome-web-list mailing list, here is another status update on the work done by various people on library.gnome.org.

    Things changed:

    • gnome-doc-utils documents look more like the design by Frederic Peters (created from an image)
    • libgo now creates index.html.$LANG files for all the gnome-doc-utils documents.
    • Uses the new gnome-doc-utils HTML output instead of XHTML (you cannot serve XHTML as HTML.. unless you make it pretend to be HTML, but IMO then you should just use HTML anyway)
    • Changed a bunch of Python code to remove UNIXisms (and introduced a few bugs..)

    Things that are broken:

    • Some modules have hacks in their Makefile.am files, making it impossible for libgo to find the documentation
    • Sometimes libgo can’t find the figures (often for gnome-doc-utils)
    • gtk-doc often have missing xml files
    • gtk-doc are not indexed (for now just browse http://library.gnome.org/api)
    • Feature: separate user and developer documentation.
    • Instead of calling it library.gnome.org everywhere, perhaps ‘GNOME Library’
    • Feature: instead of one big unreadable logfile, have some kind of structured output