From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Get docs for contrib on the web somewhere
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:40:12 -0800
Message-ID: <20060317184012.GA11869@fetter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060317182244.GE15742@pervasive.com>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:22:44PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:05:44PM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:50:47PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > It would be nice if there was an easy place to see the documentation
> > > for the various contrib projects. Would this be hard to setup? I
> > > think the plain text would be fine, just need to post the readme's
> > > somewhere and link to them.
> >
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/ has at least
> > the raw files. I'd be delighted to put up something more, tho :)
>
> Yeah, but very few people would ever think to look in CVS for
> documentation. I think it'd be much better if we could include the
> README's in the documentation build process somehow...
I'm all for it. Do you have an idea of how this might work? I
suppose some kind of idiot conversion of READMEs to man pages might be
appropriate. Dunno about what would happen on Windows. Um, help?
Cheers,
D
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