Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 12/30/06, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500
> Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's
> > > wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages
> > > because it's not indexed.
> > >
> > > So I started building a Perl script to create a top-level
> > > HTML index page automatically from the .html files it
> > > finds lying around.  I started with just the contents of
> > > /usr/share/doc.
> > >
> > > Before I go too much farther, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows
> > > of an existing product (that is surely more refined than
> > > this little starter gizmo I've got so frar) that does the
> > > same or similar thing?
> > >
> > > If not, are there any other places where generally useful
> > > HTML might be hiding?
> > >
> >
> > I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire
> > filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching
> > portage names and build a master html index for use with apache...
> >
> > Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document
> > indexes...
>
> I, for one, would be interested in seeing a copy of your script :->
>

If you mean mine, it's so short (so far) that I put it in the original message.
If you mean Jerry McBride's, I'd like to see it too.

Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team?  I woulda done Python if I had
thought it was gonna get big.  It now seems like that would be a good idea.
Care to:
  1) share your code?
  2) start a sourceforge project?
  3) just tantalize us with your results?

++ kevin

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