Moving help-topics-index.scm

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Aug 4 19:08:40 CDT 2003


I have no objection to this move in the longer term.  Certainly not in
the 1.8 lifetime, but in HEAD/g2 we can head that way.  The key point
is going to be some way that gnucash can read the file, but it already
has to read the help docs anyways.

-derek

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Would it be acceptable if I was to try to remove help-topics-index.scm
> from the gnucash main source body and move it into gnucash-docs?  (not
> now, as a future project)
> 
> It seems odd that help-topics-index.scm is totally dependent on
> gnucash-docs, and yet resides in the gnucash package.  In fact, if you
> do not install gnucash-docs, you will get an error message when trying
> to use the help system.
> 
> Added benefit, further independentization (yes, I'm making up a word)
> of the docs, and less strings for the translators to deal
> with... unless they tackle translating the docs.
> 
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