[kepler-dev] Loading documentation

[Ilkay Altintas]

Hey Dan,

Maybe the code can't get keplerDocsHome in OS/environment as it does in
Nandita's. That might cause a problem.

-ilkay

On Thu, April 13, 2006 12:07 pm, Dan Higgins wrote:
> Nandita,
>     Hmm - the code should take care of the problem, but when I remove
> the file, the docs don't show up!  And since I have a KEPLER_DOCS env
> variable, it should never get called! I'll dig into it.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Dan
>
> Nandita Mangal wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan,
>> The docsInfo.txt  is used when reading the documentation from the
>> canvas via 'GetDocumentation', as a backup test  , in the case that
>> KEPLER_DOCS env. variable retrieved nothing ....It was just a backup
>> way of checking the path is set to which location for testing purposes
>> and isn't really used otherwise.
>>
>> I can definitely do away with using it, if its causing troubles in
>> building installers.
>>
>> Here is the code using it from "getdocumentation"
>>
>> //Javadocs located under a new location in Kepler
>> String keplerDocsHome = System.getProperty("KEPLER_DOCS");
>> if(keplerDocsHome == null)
>> {
>>            //try other way to access environment variable value.
>>            BufferedReader inDocsInfo= new BufferedReader(new
>> FileReader("./doc/docsInfo.txt"));
>>           ....
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> nandita.
>>
>>
>> Dan Higgins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nandita,
>>>
>>>    I was trying to understand why I needed to regenerate the
>>> documentation every time I checkout a new version of Kepler. I
>>> haven't looked at your code but it appears that 'ant generateDoc'
>>> creates a file called 'docsInfo.txt ' in the $kepler/doc/ directory
>>> and that that file contains the path to the directory that contains
>>> the documentation xml files. It appears that Kepler actually reads
>>> the file to find the documentation. Is that correct?
>>>
>>>    If so, I would like to suggest a change. We use an environment
>>> variable KEPLER_DOCS to create the baseline documentation. Why don't
>>> we continue to use it inside Kepler for opening a documentation
>>> window? [The problem with using a file is that it is only correct for
>>> the machine where the docs were generated and this creates
>>> difficulties when we build installers or someone moves Kepler or the
>>> kepler-docs directory]. If the code used the KEPLER_DOCS env
>>> variable, I can set that on the command line that starts Kepler.
>>> Otherwise I need to rewrite the file in installers and, in any case,
>>> we need to make the path relative rather than absolute so that the
>>> user can put Kepler anywhere they wish.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>
>
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