Yes,
Its trivial to write the script that extracts the information, the only real challenge is to define tags and change all the help files.
tags could be
Name: (the external name(s)) Description: (what does it do) Author: (the authors name) Type: (external/abstraction)
(more ?)
All tags together with values go in one comment object. Information like last update time is taken from the CVS.
We would need volunteers to fill out the help patches and comunicate with the authors of the externals. If someone of the authors is against this approach the information can still be embedded in the help file as a subpatch which is hidden behind a white canvasA :)
Unresovled problems are how to make translations etc. I don't know, maybe the pddp team has a solution for that.
Günter
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It would be awesome to build PDB from meta data embedded in help patches. Any help would be appreciated.
.hc
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