Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides

[Francesco Riosa]

Lance Albertson wrote:
> Aron Griffis wrote:
>> Grant Goodyear wrote:	[Tue Jan 10 2006, 11:09:15AM EST]
>>
>>> As an aside, it's ciarnanm has already put work in on developing an RST to
>>> guidexml converter, so I wouldn't worry too much about RST not scaling.
>>
>> Could that be used dynamically on the server?  The last time I was
>> familiar with the gentoo.org server, it was running axkit and
>> dynamically generating HTML from the GuideXML.  Is it a relatively
>> simple matter to support .rst files in the same manner?
>
> Actually, we're moving away from axkit because its a PITA to maintain.
> Currently, two of the three web nodes are running a home grown app
> called gorg that runs via ruby. It seems to work rather well.
>
>> A related question: How hard would it be to enable the dynamic
>> generation for dev.gentoo.org/~users?  That would make development of
>> RST or GuideXML documents *much* simpler, since we could just work on
>> the file in our public_html and test render it by accessing through
>> a web browser.
>
> Last I knew, its not a simple task for generating those nice looking
> html pages that ciaranm made a while back for the developer docs. When I
> asked him about (he can probably provide more detail), It took a lot of
> processing time and wasn't that scalable. Now, I'm not sure if anything
> has changed since then.
>
> I can probably setup toucan to use gorg in some fashion if I had a few
> folks to test it with. I'm sure that would make things easier for a lot
> of people for rendering things.
>

yes and it would be much appreciated to have this possibility on
d.g.o/~users/ .

tester += me, if that can help.

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