From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H0svJ-0006SF-QQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:07:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBV549mg031199; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:04:09 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBV50ej3024921 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:00:40 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so9965454nfb for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:00:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cBq+UytisxUttgd2KmJGXmPKwAyEbn2MfPVa19a/RhhRYS7N4Wf0Kc1rX0k1hOHEYk2T5yVdioeHtggjvAuvNQGYUOom465tZvg2eVy6shpvD/UdYujHfLsOHloVy8Thaml2VEUwlrDtHL0yjxtQuqT9YJaS+pTlEE6EepZlwEc= Received: by 10.82.105.13 with SMTP id d13mr1208876buc.1167541240360; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:00:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.172.11 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:00:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9acccfe50612302100h2cae0dc8t301b3ea522808df5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:00:40 -0800 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index In-Reply-To: <20061230230424.78745540@osage.osagesoftware.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9acccfe50612301603k15644cu3b2a7777ad975b30@mail.gmail.com> <200612302220.18268.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <20061230230424.78745540@osage.osagesoftware.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5d76c56c-3117-41f1-bd11-c7409e6d06b3 X-Archives-Hash: 920abda7110c83ee14a8da4d90572d9d On 12/30/06, David Relson 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 -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list