Re: Archive unification progress

[Tom Howard]

Hi Guido,

> Once upon a time, Peter had started to run the ac-archive on his personal
> website and I was packaging my macros under the name of aclocal-archive.
> I was taking over his tooling for the formatting of the macros, at first
> just for my in-house representation, later on the sourceforge flavour of
> the ac-archive. - The original tool is named macro2html.cpp (yes, this
> is C++) and I converted it later to macro2html.pl (a perl script). Both
> files are still visible in the ac-archive.sf.net CVS area on checkout.
>
> The ac-archive website is now being generated through gendocs.pl but the
> macro formatting is still done with subroutines relating to the early days
> and before any of the xml/haskell work. Surely, you can derive a php
> version easily from the perl macro2html.pl variant. I have added some
> more markup options (in gendocs.pl) but they are not represented in any
> ac-archive macros since I was not aware whether Peters offsite engine
> does support the extras.
>
> Anyway, I am not sure whether a live representation via php is even
> allowed on the gnu webserver - the gnu webserver seems to be generally
> represented in a second CVS area at savannah. This seems like static
> pages to my eyes but actually I do not know how the gnu webserver
> generation does work.

Judging by that, I've misunderstood the whole xml push.  What
specifically is preventing unification of the two archives?  Are both
sites using gendocs.pl or do they each use different tools?  I want to
help with the unification if I can, but I don't even know what is
holding it back at the moment.

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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