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Bug 341805 - Verify devhelp plugin fails gracefully if devhelp not present
Summary: Verify devhelp plugin fails gracefully if devhelp not present
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Linux Tools
Classification: Tools
Component: Libhover (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Jeff Johnston CLA
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Reported: 2011-04-04 11:19 EDT by Andrew Overholt CLA
Modified: 2012-04-19 12:10 EDT (History)
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Description Andrew Overholt CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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.