[ghemical-devel] Re: about versions and organizing tasks

[Jean Bréfort]

Le jeudi 06 avril 2006 à 15:07 +0300, Tommi Hassinen a écrit :
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Donald Ephraim Curtis wrote:
> 
> > Geoff is right though, the easiest thing would be to say what goals we have, 
> > what that will require and what branch it should go into.
> 
> The new stuff at VERSION_2_BRANCH which is not yet ported to HEAD are:
> 
> 1) gamess dialog
> 2) constraints dialog + constraints "project view" entries
> 3) configuration dialog and .rc file, if we decide to add them
> 
> Essential features that I think VERSION_2_BRANCH still lacks are
> 
> 1) the main menu Help/Help item cannot show help files
>  	-> a) where to install the help files?
>  		<PREFIX>/share/ghemical/<VERSION>/manual perhaps?
>  	-> b) what is a proper way for a GTK2 application to show
>  		html help files
>  		- is there a HTML viewer widget?
>  		- should it launch a browser application to view them?
>  			- mozilla?
>  			- ???

Gnome applications (and many Gtk2 applications) install their help files
in $(datadir)/gnome/help. Seems that ghemical HEAD already does that.
The format generally used for the help files is DocBook xml. To view the
files use the default help browser or the default navigator.

> 2) anything else? I don't really know other significant shortcomings.
> 
> > any chance ghemical will move to SVN sometime?  it's pretty CVS friendly and 
> > it's SO much nicer.
> 
> SVN = Subversion? Not a bad idea, but I haven't ever used it yet and know 
> very little of it so far. There are many useless old directories in 
> the source tree, which is a good reason for a fresh start in version 
> control. This is a post-v2.00-issue...

subversion is better than cvs on several points (you can rename, move
files and directories...) and the syntax is not so different from cvs
syntax, so changing is really easy.

> > don't take what i say too forcefull, trying to be quick and concise can sound 
> > pretty rough when opinions start to fly.
> 
> No worries!  :)
> 
>  	Tommi
> 
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