Re: Commandline manual lookup script like perldoc for PHP

> > - we can generate some kind of text format (I guess the 'individual > > HTML files' format filtered through lynx would be OK) if that does > > not take much time for our build system, and it significantly helps > > this command line tool > > I started rewriting it cleanly, and am now trying to figure out a proper > way to get the manual information. The option i prefer is using the > source XML, however, to get them to the client, i would a) need to fetch > them from http://cvs.php.net, which is kind of slow and > not-so-nice-to-do (having to parse the site to fetch everything > recursively), or b) rely on cvs being installed on the computer. I don't > like either of this options. So, i ask if it would be possible to simply > add the xml format to the list of downloadable formats as a tar.bz2, or, > since the gzip extension in php is more common, better as a tar.gz - > That shouldn't take much build time and would really help. That is only easy in case of the English version, it needs tweaks for translations (need to find out what comes from where). Don't you see any other option? Goba