Trap Exit (was Re: is there /dev/null process in Erlang ?)

[Joe Armstrong (TN/EAB)]

Re: documentation.

Status: I am working on a system to replace (I hope) the old SGML
documentation.

The steps involved are:

	1) Convert all sgml documentation to wiki format
	2) Write server to render wiki text, allowing
	   - user annotations
	   - versioning
	   - author modifications
	   - multiple output formats (HTML, PDF, ...) 
      3) Run internally for a while to
         see if it works
	4) Deploy on a public server


I'm almost at point 3)

All of this is subject to one horrendous constraint.

a) *I don't want to break the existing documentation*

There are thousands of SGML files to be converted - representing dozens
possible hundreds of man-years of work.

I want to make the change ONCE and get it right - this is why we do
not wish to release the documentation sources - I want to discourage
multiple
mutations of documentation sources.

b) I want a pure erlang-tool chain to process the documentation

The existing tool chain involves an SGL parser LaTeX etc. and is 
difficult to install and maintain.

/Joe
 


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED 
> [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas Lindgren
> Sent: den 21 juli 2006 15:20
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: RE: Trap Exit (was Re: is there /dev/null process in 
> Erlang ?)
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> 
> > Joe is working on a erlang-docs-to-wiki project, but it won't be 
> > mediawiki. It will of course be something much better. ;-)
> 
> Kudos to him, though I honestly wouldn't mind using a 
> solution that is globally available Right Now :-) And which 
> is also hosted, and maintained, indefinitely of course.
> 
> My sources (Jocke, that is, one of the original
> authors) tell me that the pre-publication format of the 
> Erlang docs should be fairly straightforward to translate, by 
> the way. If these sources were made available, Ericsson could 
> reap the rewards of busy open sourcers working for free. Nice, huh?
> 
> Best,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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