Announcement: CHM manuals are compiled on pear.php.net now

[Christian Weiske]

Hello all,


The PEAR documentation in Windows HTML Help (chm) format gets compiled
on pear.php.net now during the weekly build process.

I got the HTML help compiler running on our Linux box using wine and
integrated it into the build process. Wine and hhc.exe run as a
different user to prevent compromisation of our system by Microsoft
software.

No Windows server needed! No manual uploading! Regular chm builds!

The results can bee seen at

http://pear.php.net/distributions/manual/pear_manual_en.chm

or

http://pear.php.net/manual/

for all other languages.

[Pierre Joye]

hi Christian,

Post by Christian Weiske
Hello all,
The PEAR documentation in Windows HTML Help (chm) format gets compiled
on pear.php.net now during the weekly build process.
I got the HTML help compiler running on our Linux box using wine and
integrated it into the build process.

You mean the same box that you use for pear.php.net?

Post by Christian Weiske
Wine and hhc.exe run as a
different user to prevent compromisation of our system by Microsoft
software.

Well, not sure what you are talking about here. The only problem I
could see is to run wine itself on a web server, if that's the case :)

Post by Christian Weiske
No Windows server needed! No manual uploading! Regular chm builds!

The doc team has a dedicated server to generate the docs and it has
many free cycles. There is no manual upload, everything is automatic
(Yes, Bjori, I forgot the PDF :( ).

I wonder why you did not simply use it too? Besides the fun of
installing wine, it will be nicer ;)

Cheers,