Re: [Chicken-users] Re: new egg documentation bootstrap

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Felix

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:40:11 +0100 felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> How about making henrietta fetch the documentation when serving eggs?
>> It's not the optimal solution but it looks simple.
>>
>> For example, when the user executes
>>
>>  $ chicken-install spiffy
>>
>> henrietta would get
>> http://chicken.wiki.br/eggref/<chicken-major-version>/spiffy, save its
>> contents to spiffy.html (maybe could be cached) then give it to
>> chicken-install.
>>
>> Maybe it could even be done by chicken-install itself.
>
> Converting the doc to HTML would be much easier when a few
> eggs can be used for that. chicken-install must work with the core
> libraries. I think henrietta is possibly the better place to modify.

Maybe I'm missing something.  Given that chicken-install already fetches
egg files via HTTP, would fetching a page from
http://chicken.wiki.br/eggref/<chicken-major-version>/<eggname> be much
different?  This way we don't even need any conversion.

Best wishes.
Mario