From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6487f59679c615d8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.230.98 with SMTP id sx2mr4908229pbc.1.1336614882701; Wed, 09 May 2012 18:54:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: pr3ni8220pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.tornevall.net!news.jacob-sparre.dk!munin.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 20:54:32 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <82aa1ud0l3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <20120509131736.63c924c8@vostro> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1336614879 9147 69.95.181.76 (10 May 2012 01:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:54:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Date: 2012-05-09T20:54:32-05:00 List-Id: "Oliver Kleinke" 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.