[FM Discuss] Versioning for entire collections

[Seth Woodworth]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Joshua Gay <joshuagay at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be nice if the package installed into the Applications menu
> into a FLOSSManuals section (on Debian and Ubuntu). I don't think a
> GTK reader would be bad. It would be nice if they also had info and
> man integration, with the aim of making info and man readers of the
> future, sexier. Integration of end-user documentation and man/info
> documentation would be nice (I could imagine something using inclusion
> -- this would be easy in a GTK reader, since you have all of the the
> GNU C library terminal functions at your disposal). Also, it would
> also be good if the PDFs and HTML pages linked to the wiki.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > A deb would be fantastic...were you thinking of doing it in html or
> > using pdf? I was actually pondering the possibility of a simple GTK
> > reader...too fancy? We could (for example) export to docbook if we could
> > find a nice reading app...
> >
> > as for the 'release' idea..., the content of different manuals is
> > updated at different rates. For example, Sugar is updated almost daily
> > at the moment. Whereas I haven't updated MuSE for 4 months.
> >
> > Im not sure how we could do such a 'release' given these
> > circumstances...
>

*shrug*  have high numbers.  Or name a release by day/time.  Having *any*
release info is better than none.

Actually, I think that a timestamp wouldn't be awful, use the exact moment
that someone hits the publish button.  Easy.

--Seth







> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:56 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> If I'm planning on making DEB packages out of FLOSSManuals content, is
> >> there any way to have a manual "release"?
> >>
> >> Like when it's been checked over that it works with version of the
> >> software foo by person.
> >>
> >> -lf
> >>
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