devhelp missing docs?

krani1 · 2006-09-28 14:31:35

hi

I installed devhelp to help my development.. but when I open it, there is no docs whatsoever... Is there any package that cames with the docs? (glib, gtk2..)

Lone_Wolf · 2006-09-28 16:00:45

docs are typically removed from arch packages during build to make them smaller.
Also many feel that the most up-to-date docs for apps are the online versions of the internet.

Try man devhelp , manpages are not stripped.

krani1 · 2006-09-28 16:23:34

man devhelp doesn't really help...

devhelp is supposed to help browsing system docs and API's... but without arch docs it's really useless... I'm disapointed now, arch is bad for development

phrakture · 2006-09-28 17:46:15

krani1 wrote:

I'm disapointed now, arch is bad for development

Sounds like broad generalizations are key here.
I've developed on linux for years and never heard of devhelp. If you NEED devhelpt to develop, doesn't that make devhelp the one which is bad for development?

krani1 · 2006-09-28 18:45:36

Maybe you misunderstand me... sorry

What I mean is.. i NEED docs in my system, in my case GTK and GLIB API.. devhelp is just a frontend!

I'm sorry, it's just the first linux distribution I found myself with this problem...

Snowman · 2006-09-28 19:07:50

There is a gtk-doc package. I don't know if it contains the glib docs. If not, you'll need to do a glib-doc package.

JGC · 2006-09-28 22:12:31

We still need to make gtk-doc packages for these API documentations. At this moment, the only use for devhelp in the repositories is because anjuta wants it.

vasdee · 2006-09-29 00:03:18

i've been meaning / wanting to build a lot of packages for devhelp but the only ones i can find are quite outdated.

Anyone know where to get a some decent docbooks or how to convert an online reference to docbook format?

Triston J. Taylor · 2014-12-26 04:25:20

Currently, the package glib2-docs is what general users are looking for.

To obtain a list of packages which provide devhelp you shall issue:

pkgfile -r "devhelp2?\$"

You may need to install pkgfile
You may need to modify the regular expression if devhelp2 becomes outdated
This is a general case solution which may provide inaccurate results
devhelp files can be found in the source release of most established gtk software suites
devhelp files can be installed per-user in your ~/.local path
You should visit the devhelp website and or manpages for more information
If we were half as smart as we claim to be, devhelp would have a man page browser
If we were twice as smart as we claim to be, devhelp would have a console based version that would replace man pages
If we were thrifty and thirsty enough, we would have used lynx, elinks or the like to do this long ago

jasonwryan · 2014-12-26 04:34:06

No, it's not what they are looking for; they stopped looking eight years ago.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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devhelp missing docs?

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