RE: the hurd source code included at hurd.gnu.org

[Jim Franklin]

Hi,
 I've been trying to think of the best approach to moving this part of the
website project forward. I don't have the ability to handle this part of the
project so I think we should ask around to various groups for assistance in
implementing the source code webpages.
 The webmasters know the gnu.org site inside out so are the logical folks to
approach for a workable solution or approach to a workable solution.
 Jeff, would you be willing to liaison with the webmasters to see if:

)they have a webmaster in training who could assist us in this
or
)they could assist us in this
or
)they or someone they know could outline an approach to a solution for us

 I think Ognyan's suggestion of using gnu GLOBAL is an excellent idea. I'll
check out the tutorial link and join the mailing list. Perhaps we can
recruit assistance there as well since it is helping another gnu project. If
we can do it for the hurd source then we should be able to do it for the
GNUMach source as well.
 The steps for implementing the source code into web pages needs to be
documented so it can be repeated for other projects. Like Ognyan said this
is something ground breaking and revolutionary for gnu.org and could very
well be a wave for the future of other gnu project websites. This point of
view when approaching folks for assistance could help in getting us
assistance.
 Please add your suggestions. I am planning on holding to the deadline which
is why I don't think we have time to do all the learning we need in order to
do this ourselves. I could be wrong though :)

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
Ognyan Kulev
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:20 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: the hurd source code included at hurd.gnu.org


On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:37:09PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> All the sources are already available via cvsweb on savannah.  That
> meets your fundamental stated goals of the source being easily available.

Cvsweb doesn't make the whole source hyperlinked.  This is more than a nice
addition.  If we want an easy solution i'm with GLOBAL: it can make static
HTML pages very easy (commands: "gtags && htags" and all's done:).  It can
do searching but this wants CGIs.  It includes regex support too.

> I am a total fan of glimpse indexing for my own source trees.  Having a
> web-searchable source index would be a fine addition to the web site.
> There are various things out there for precisely the purpose you hand in
> mind, like lxr.

lxr has a nice output too.  There is a concise tutorial for GLOBAL
<http://www.tamacom.com/global/global.html> that can be linked from
hurd.gnu.org.

Whatever system we choose i'll mention again that GNUMach has to be treated
equally to Hurd (good or bad, it's the only microkernel Hurd runs on).

Regards
--
Ognyan Kulev <address@hidden>, "\"Programmer\""


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