[gnome-love] [Re: approval from sun and a last XML request [was Re: [gnome-love] wanted: php or cgi programmer with some spare time to help with gnome test spec]]

[fflewddur <fflewddur dropline net>]

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:00, Luis Villa wrote:
> BTW, just wanted to let everyone know that I've talked to the current
> maintainer of this project at Sun and he's very open to using this code.
awesome.

> Todd: question: if I drop a new file into one of the subdirectories,
> will this page
> http://www.shopindiego.net/gnome_test_specs/components/battery_charge_monitor_applet/
> get updated?
no.  i was confused.  i thought you just wanted the ability to drop in a
new module, not add a new test to an existing module.  thanks to the
perl interface, however, changing this shouldn't be more than a
one-night job.  we'll just need to make the perl generate php pages
which do the same directory look-up as the toc bar.  unless someone else
feels like doing this, i'll take care of it tonight.

> > i couldn't figure out where the
> > instruction html files are generated (or if they are at all...), so
> > there's still a lot of cruft there that could go. 
>
> AFAIK, they aren't- I think it's a template page that they fill in and
> save. Before calling this a day and starting to push this into CVS, is
> anyone still open to the idea of converting the test files to XML or
> simple text, so that we can easily change their presentation?
> Luis
well, i tracked down three perl scripts that are *supposed* to generate
the instructions, and while they do run during the make_all_indices
script, they didn't actually change anything :P
 
i'm not very familiar with xml yet, but i've been meaning to learn. 
what exactly would be needed in order to move this whole thing over to
xml files?

todd