[GRASS-user] manual page for addons

[William Kyngesburye]

There was some discussion this summer in relation to g.extension about  
user-addon paths.

For user manual pages, see how I do it for OSX in macosx/app/ 
build_html_user_index.sh.  It's basically a copy of  
build_html_index.sh (used in compilation only) changed to build a user  
html index on startup, from a known path (not GRASS_ADDON_PATH).  It's  
a bit clunky because the installed help index is static, so the user  
help index must be a separate index, and it's not possible to link to  
a user's home folder from the main index in html (because it's  
variable).

I think GRASS needs a more structured external addon path setup than  
the loose GRASS_ADDON_PATH (which only extends the env PATH).  My  
GRASS_ADDON_ETC, and companion g.findetc is one step to this, but it  
doesn't say anything about help files.

On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Hamish wrote:

> there may be something in William's extra ETC for frameworks magic.
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> Hamish
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