On Sunday 12 August 2007 3:11:06 pm Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 12/08/07, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sunday 12 August 2007 7:48:37 am Stefan Richter wrote: > > > Isn't it with 00-INDEX just like with the "Last Updated:" footers in > > > documentation texts? > > > > > > They are metadata which will be almost always out of date. > > > > If nothing is using them, they'll bit-rot, yes. Way of the world. But > > I've found a use for them. Therefore, I'm interested in getting them up > > to date and then keeping them there. > > So, do you want me to create more of these? Yes please. > If you want them, could you perhaps start by ACK'ing the first 5 > patches to help me get them merged? Just did. :) > Once I see the first 5 merged I'll start creating more, but I don't > want to waste time doing so before that. Sorry it took so long, but my net access is still a touch intermittent just now. I recently moved back to Austin and we haven't unpacked the wireless router yet. (So although there's internet at home my wife is usually the one using it. I'm out at a wireless laundromat at the moment. Yes, Austin has such things.) > >I already wrote an automatic checker to tell me > > how they differ from reality, which is half the battle. > > I started writing such a script myself yesterday, but it's not done > yet. If you already have one that works could I have a copy please? > That would make my life easier if I'm to help you with this. I posted a link to it in the message at the start of this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/9/584 Here's the release announcement for it: http://marc.info/?l=linux-doc&m=118671778606001&w=2 Here's the source control for it: http://landley.net/hg/kdocs/file/tip/make/ You need to run the index.html generator first, because the link checker works on the html and not on 00-INDEX itself. Both scripts expect Documentation to be a subdirectory of the current directory, and do the whole directory. And I need to update it so it filters out index.html, but my laundry's done. :) Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html