I've just installed the latest Gnome release (http://www.gnome.org) and I
must say that I was really pleased (not to say, impressed) by two things:
1. Installation
All I had to type was:
~> lynx -source http://go-gnome.com | sh
This went on downloading and executing an installation script, which
figured out automatically the system I am running on (RedHat 6.2), then
asked me to select the nearest mirror and downloaded and installed
the right set of packages for RH-6.2. Very cool!
I'd like to see something similar for Python.
2. Integrated Help System
You guys should definitely try out the Gnome help browser, if you haven't
seen it already. This is a very good source of inspiration for implementing
and integrated help for Python.
The gnome-help browser is a unified interface to man, info and HTML docs.
It introduces some 'magic' naming schemes (explained in ghelp:help-browser)
For instance:
a) http: ... The usual http: naming conventions for accessing
documents through HTTP
b) file: ... The usual file naming scheme for accessing local files)
c) whatis: ... Do a substring search of document names
Examples - whatis:ls
whatis:xman
d) toc: ... Load a table of contents of available documents
Examples - toc:
toc:man
toc:info
toc:ghelp
e) man: ... Load a manual page
Examples - man:ls
man:ls(1)
f) info: ... Load a GNU info page
Examples - info:emacs
info:emacs#Top
g) ghelp: ... Load a Gnome help page for an application
Examples - ghelp:help-browser
If you're still unclear on how to implement an integrated help system
for Python, replace 'ghelp' by 'python' or 'pyhelp' and steal everything
else from the Gnome help system <0.5 wink>.
happy-with-open-source'ly y'rs
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