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Re: Website documentation


One thing that has been of help in the NetBSD project has been placing 
the web site inside the same CVS repository (though in a different
module!) as the sources. This way, all the developers have the ability 
to fix the web site when the fancy strikes them.

Perry

Dirk Herrmann writes:
> Hello!
> 
> The documentation on the websites is horribly old. It's not a matter of
> release 1.3 not being released yet: The documentation is still from the
> 1.1a release of guile. This is also true for the developers web site. For
> example, the documentation from CVS about using smobs is up to date with
> the changes about garbage collecting smobs, but on the web it's still the
> old information.
> 
> SCWM's documentation seems to be updated automatically in sync with
> changes to the sources. Sure, this mechanism will not be usable
> until guile supports SCWM's documentation method, but even with the
> current documentation it should be possible to keep the websites up to 
> date by using texi2html.
> 
> Best regards, 
> Dirk Herrmann
>