Re: help on getting the right documents in cvs

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:56 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:27:54PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > Would some kind soul please help me figure out which cvs modules I
> > will need in order to have all of the Gnome documentation sources? I
> > need all the .sgml/.xml sources and the .omf files that go with them.
> >
> > I wrote a script to import all the Gnome documents into Lampadas
> > using the information in the omf files. It works great on gnome-core,
> > and now I want to try importing the rest of the docs.
>
> Was the plan to include the documentation for all the "main" (by some
> definition) applications as well? If so, it may make sense to create a
> special module (in CVSROOT/modules) to suck out the appropriate stuff
> from each application. Otherwise you will need to grab a few dozen CVS
> modules.
>
> Creating a special module for lampadas to grab is not hard -- just a
> bit fiddly to get right at first.

I want to get all the files you plan to be managing in Lampadas, so I can 
give them all a good test and make sure there's nothing funky I can't 
handle. I don't know whether you'll want a special cvs module for when 
you're actually running Lampadas or not. I should think so, but I'm not 
sure.