On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 12:53 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:50:38 +0100 > Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:18:57AM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Just out of interest, what's the difference between doc-central and > > > dwww ? > > > > That's a pretty damn good question :-) > > > > I've made the choice between dwww and doc-central several years > > ago. _IIRC_ , back then dwww was missing decent browsing of the doc-base > > sections which is my main access path to documentation; more generally, > > I liked dwww more back then. FWIW I've just re-looked at dwww after > > your prod, and it seems that it has improved a lot over time. > > Agreed - and as dwww has progressed, doc-central appears to have > stalled. The Documentation Menu in dwww covers all I need from doc-base > and the addition of man page browsing, info document browsing, viewing > any file in any /use/share/doc/ directory and automatic linking from > changelog.Debian.gz to the BTS and similar - it's all really neat. Add > in the dpkg-www package to link to the Packages / apt cache data and > doc-central could have a lot of catching up to do. > > The only thing missing (for me) from dwww is an area covered by devhelp > - and even then a simple symlink is enough to make things like the > gtk2.0 reference manual available in dwww. > > devhelp has useful integration with some IDEs so that's why I use that > one as well. > > > If the point of yours, beside curiosity, was also to phase out > > doc-central in favor of dwww, that might be an option, but then > > agreement should be sought between the two packages maintainer and a bit > > of smooth upgrade path should be provided. > > There are plenty of situations in Debian where users have a choice of > options that have pros-and-cons. Personally, I don't see a need to > migrate - yet - as long as doc-central is usable and does the smaller > task of just the doc-base files, it is probably worth having both.
I don't use either. I gave a quick-try to both of them. If I where to use one of them, I would probably use doc-central, because it doesn't depends on any indexing tools (dlocate, squish...). > If there is any particular content that advises doc-central over dwww > (on www.debian.org or on the Wiki) I'm not aware of it, so it's left to > user choice. It's best if packages pros/cons are summarized in package description. Here's a page for g**glers (contributions are welcome): http://wiki.debian.org/doc-base Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
