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Re: future of dhelp



On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:19:30 +0100
Daniel Nouri <daniel.nouri@con-fuse.org> wrote:

> "Daniel K. Gebhart" <dkg@con-fuse.org> writes:
> > 
> > Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de> writes:
> > > > If we're concerned about a parser, I think the best thing would be to
> > > > provide an XML data interchange format.   XML parsers are cheap and
> > > > plentiful.  Or is that too much?
> > > No, I think XML would be a nice solution. 
> > 
> > Sure. XML would be very comfortable to parse with python.. but it's not
> > so much "Debian like" then RFC822 conform files.
> 
> I don't see a point in being "Debian like" just because.

ACK.

> 
> Another small thing that's not clear to me: What if dhelp installs after
> documents? How is that solved ATM?

You can run the hook over all files in doc-base directory to get the
initial database.

Bye
     Racke



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