Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

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 :->

David
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