Subject: plan to bring share documents into help system
From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:50:03 +0300
Robert Dodier writes:
> I'd like to see documentation for share packages available
> by the same means as the documentation for the rest of
> Maxima. A straightforward way to do that is to put any .info
> files in share on the list of files to search for "describe".
> The variables of interest are CL-INFO::*DEFAULT-INFO-FILES*
> and CL-INFO::*INFO-PATHS*.
>
> There are a couple of practical problems to work out --
> one is to generate the .info files and copy them
> if necessary to a directory where they can be found,
> and the other is to create texinfo versions of whatever
> ..txt or .usg files now exist in share/.
>
> However these problems aren't difficult,
> and once the makefile/directory stuff is worked out,
> it will be possible to make progress a little at a time.
>
Sounds as a good plan. But not only documentation -
whole share needs serious attention. As far as I
remember cleaning/sweeping/documenting in share is one
of major tasks for certain 5.9.3 release
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/releaseplans.shtml
BTW what is the plan for 5.9.3 besides share?
I have a bunch of projects for 5.9.3 in my mind.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov