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Bug 341805

Summary:	Verify devhelp plugin fails gracefully if devhelp not present
Product:	[Tools] Linux Tools	Reporter:	Andrew Overholt <overholt>
Component:	Libhover	Assignee:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Overholt

2011-04-04 11:19:07 EDT

I'm specifically thinking of operating systems where devhelp is not present.  Unit tests for this situation should also exist.

Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov

2011-04-05 07:16:45 EDT

I don't think that not having devhelp will be a problem at all. The real problem can be if the parser is doesn't handle gracefully missing or empty gtk-doc directory.

Comment 2 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-04-19 12:10:05 EDT

Devhelp is definetely not needed for /usr/share/gtk-doc to be present. It's a universal format generated by the gtk-doc http://www.gtk.org/gtk-doc/ tool and can be read with plain browser too. The index files which are used by devhelp are shipped regardless of whether devhelp is installed, much like html files are shipped without checking for browser installed.