[GRASS-dev] Add link to manual page on the addon wiki

[Paulo van Breugel]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Paulo van Breugel <
>>> p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Currently on the http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AddOns/GRASS7/ page
>>>> the link to the source files are provided (for those uploaded to the grass
>>>> gis addon svn).
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>>>> Now that online manual pages of the addons are automatically created
>>>> (very nice!), I was thinking that it might be useful for users to provide
>>>> the link to these manual pages. This might be useful for users browsing the
>>>> available addons on that wiki page.
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>>>> I don't mind doing that (for GRASS 7) if others think that it is a good
>>>> idea. If so, is there a similar shortcut as for the source files, e.g.,:
>>>> {{AddonManual|raster|addon_name|version=7}}
>>>>
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>>> The situation now is unclear. There is the list on the wiki but also the
>>> generated list at http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/
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>> That is true
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>>> What about something like wiki just linking this list plus having list
>>> of addons which are not in the official repository?
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>> Although nice to have this automatically generated list, I need to click
>> on each one to get a first impression what it is for (it is not always
>> possible to guess this from the name). I like the wiki page in that it
>> provide a very brief description / impression what the addons are about at
>> a glance.
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>> This will not be solved by wiki page because this has to be manually
> updated.
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The wiki page does provide a line or two explanation for most addons, so in
that sense it does provide an solution


> This should be done by the script which generates the page. Addons page
> should be similar to
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/full_index.html
>

But if it could be generated automatically in something similar to your
example, that would be awesome! Any plans for that?

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>>>> Paulo
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