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branch master updated: Update DevHelp TODO entry
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Patrice Dumas |
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branch master updated: Update DevHelp TODO entry |
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Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:01:01 -0500 |
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new 71a5e8b538 Update DevHelp TODO entry
71a5e8b538 is described below
commit 71a5e8b538def7e28388495ed9d7200514dd4c76
Author: Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 14 10:00:50 2022 +0100
Update DevHelp TODO entry
* TODO: describe that the DevHelp XML format that would need to be
generated is still not documented.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
TODO | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f63439a07f..22ffdbc4ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2022-01-14 Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
+
+ Update DevHelp TODO entry
+
+ * TODO: describe that the DevHelp XML format that would need to be
+ generated is still not documented.
+
2022-01-13 Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr>
* maintain/regenerate_documentlanguages-loc.pl: script to
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index b86bee16ea..1393403821 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ If you are interested in working on any of these, email
bug-texinfo@gnu.org.
- Support output formats retaining the tree structure of Texinfo documents
as parsed by the Parser. A lisp-like format for GUILE? Maybe JSON?
- Support other graphical documentation browsers like GNOME DevHelp
- (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-03/msg00041.html)
+ - DevHelp support could need to wait for a specification of the DevHelp
+ XML file format, which was not documented in 2022. Fromn DevHelp help:
+ "Unfortunately the *.devhelp2 XML file format is not well documented.
+ There is still some hope that it will be fixed in the near future."
+ There was an early discussion in 2015. The *.devhelp format at that time
+ was the first devhelp file format, now obsolete:
+ (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-03/msg00041.html)
- Support the MediaWiki output format.
* TeX:
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