Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Oliver Kleinke" <oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de> wrote in message 
news:20120509131736.63c924c8@vostro...
>...
> Honestly, you should consider converting the sources to a more appropriate 
> format.

The sources are still in the original Scribe format used by Jean Ichbiah's 
team back in the 1970s. Some sort of conversion (without losing any 
information) would be pretty expensive, even if it could be automated. 
(Preserving the comments in the files would be hard, for instance, as the 
formatter discards them immediately.)

...
> Also, the
> way the Formatter sources are provided sucks major -- cvsweb, you have
> to click around a lot until you have a complete set of files plus some
> of the HEAD versions have been broken.

There is are ZIP files with the complete set of sources, both to the tools 
and the RM (Scribe-like) source. But I think the links disappeared, because 
I can't find them. (Something else for the todo list.)

Not sure what you mean by the "HEAD versions have been broken", because this 
is a frequently updated copy of the repository on my computer, and I'm 
pretty sure there is no broken source on my computer. :-) If you have any 
examples, I'll look into them.

Unimportant aside: The repository hasn't used "cvsweb" for a number of 
years; it's actually implemented in Ada (I was not interested in running 
unknown Perl code on my server!); it just emulates the "cvsweb" links 
because I didn't want to break anybodies existing links into the repository 
(and there are a lot of them, especially in downloaded copies of the Ada 
RM). It's smarter than "cvsweb" was, especially when displaying AIs. It 
could be improved further, but I'd need a good idea that wouldn't break 
links (which admittedly is very limiting).

                                   Randy.