Re: help and caching

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:24:09AM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > OK, so what you are proposing is the KDE way of doing it. Make the
> > db2html conversion at install time. (I hope you don't mean that the
> > admin is going to generate the documents manually whenever a user asks
> > for it?)
> > 
> 
> If this is the KDE way, yes. I think the important things are:
> 	* if there is no html, just use the xml
> 	* if the html is out of date, ignore it
> 	* have an independent tool that generates the html
> 
> Out of prefix "user" documentation should idealy also fit into this.

Is the following a reasonable summary of the requirements so far?

(1) Need to allow the possibility of system-wide and per-user
cache locations.

(2) Need to have configuration and management of cache size.
Particularly, as Sander noted early on, because we don't want the cache
to completely take over the users' home directories.

(3) Need some way to pre-generate and re-generate the appropriate HTML
documents in the system-wide directory from time to time (this seems
very inelegant to me, but I also can't think of a better solution).

It seems like (2) is needed for user-installed apps (in their home
directories of whatever) and in (3) we need to be able to configure the
search path for the documents, since even system-wide available packages
could be stored in multiple prefixes (it's possible; I am not saying
it's a good idea).

So what have I forgotten?

Malcolm