2001-09-22 02:54:49 +00:00
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This is ScrollServer 0.4, a Python based http server that provides access to
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2001-09-10 12:23:50 +00:00
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a scrollkeeper database with any web browser.
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ScrollServer is in very early development, but it is already useful. It has
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been tested on RedHat 7.1 and Debian Woody. Reports of success or failure on
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other systems greatly appreciated.
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2001-09-22 02:54:49 +00:00
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I'm working towards a 1.0 release which will implement basic functionality.
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It must be usable in text browsers but attractive in X.
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It must Serve all documentation formats supported by ScrollKeeper.
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It must provide browsing by document title or topic
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In later releases searching should be powerful but easy. It's a classic trade
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off, but I'm going to try. It will probably mean writing my own DocBook-aware
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search library.
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There are more ambitious goals in the long term. Eventally, ScrollServers will
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be able to talk to one another, and to share information with each other. One
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ScrollServer will `publish' a document or five hundred, and another will
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`subscribe' to the `publication'. This is mainly for the benefit of the Linux
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Documentation Project and others who provide more general Linux information.
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Each subscription can be left offsite or cached locally, updating the
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local ScrollKeeper database. If the local ScrollServer database has a cached
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copy of the document, it will be used in preference to the online copy.
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Eventually a reader might be able to rate a document, and have their comments
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sent to the publisher (i.e., the other ScrollServer) and also to the author of
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the document, which can be extracted from the DocBook.
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Sound like an interesting project?
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2001-09-18 16:37:57 +00:00
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2001-09-10 12:23:50 +00:00
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Known Bugs
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Images are not displayed for sources files not in html format.
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2001-09-18 16:37:57 +00:00
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XML files are not yet supported, or at least not tested.
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2001-09-10 12:23:50 +00:00
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Gnome specific uris such as gnome-help:foo don't work. I and the gnome-doc
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2001-09-18 16:37:57 +00:00
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people are working on a solution. It may just mean work in the xsl stylesheets.
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2001-09-10 12:23:50 +00:00
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KDE documents haven't even been looked at yet.
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HTML is cached, but there is no cache management.
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2001-09-22 02:54:49 +00:00
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David Merrill
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david@lupercalia.net
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