discuss: Some ideas for TLDP
Subject:
Some ideas for TLDP
From:
"J. S. Evans" ####@####.####
Date:
9 Jan 2016 12:17:28 +0000
Message-Id: <5481365.QxDa14rpdB@localhost.localdomain>
Hi all,
Where is TLDP today? Looking at the site, I see some really good information
and a lot of info that is plainly outdated. Really, when was the last time
anyone needed a guide for setting up a 3-button serial mouse in Linux? I
wonder if it is time to see some changes to the site and introduce new
content.
Some suggestions & talking points:
- Move away from DocBook 4 to something a little more modern and preferably
user friendly like LyX.
I'm sure someone will bring this up from the FAQ (written in 2004)
Q: DocBook is too hard to learn for a LyX user like me. Why do you use it?
A: It's not just LyX users that say this, but here's the answer... There are
hundreds of documents in our collection. We have one set of scripts to convert
each of these documents into human-readable formats (HTML, PostScript and
PDF). We use these scripts not only to save time, but also to keep our
collection visually similar, as requested by many of our readers (read
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/0041253 for more information.
DocBook is a very descriptive markup language specifically desgined to describe
technical documentation. Always under active development, DocBook is be used
to output a variety of formats, including HTML pages, slide shows, PDF and
PostScript for printed materials. We are always interested in hearing about
scripts or tools for converting text to DocBook. Please read the Author Guide
and contribute your ideas to the "Discuss" mailing list. LyX users should also
read http://www.teledyn.com/help/XML/lyx2db/t1.html for more information.
The problem with this is that DocBook 4 is really friggin old. No, you can't
export LyX or OpenOffice/LibreOffice to it anymore because it is an outdated
version of the DocBook standard. Rather than rewriting the scripts to use
DocBook 5, why not find a better standard?
- Find a way to grow enthusiasm for the project. Looking at the stats for the
existing mailing lists, it looks like most of them haven't had any new traffic
in years. Some going back to 2008 and before. TLDP is an amazing idea, why
aren't we utilizing it for it's maximum value?
- Articles, books, guides, etc that are > 5 years old from the present should
be put into an archives section of the site, but never ever deleted. Who
knows when some poor slob really will need to use a 3-button serial mouse?
Information is always needed, but it doesn't need to be on the front page.
- Replace pluckerDB with epub. It just makes sense.
What I love about TLDP is the same as what I love about Linux, the GPL, and
free software. I love the fact that there are no ads. Never change that. The
site is smooth and easy to navigate. Mostly what I propose is to see more
content and make it easier for that content to be added.
Best Regards,
J.S. Evans
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Wed Apr 24 05:42:07 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
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425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0x88e0c6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
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379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
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382 def main():
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| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x88f53ac>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x88e01ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, msgnum=12696) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
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232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
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233 ctxt.pop()
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| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x88e01b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x895b04c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x895b04c>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x88e01b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x895b4cc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x895b4cc>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
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211 return partnum
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212
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| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x88e0144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x895b4cc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 0, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...harset': 'utf-8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x895b4cc>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
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167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
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| global template = <function template at 0x88d8e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x88d8ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8959ad8> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
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41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
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44 def xml(name):
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| global template = <function template at 0x88d8e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
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32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
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34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
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| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8871a4c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x88e3e6c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
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338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
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339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
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340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
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| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x88e3e6c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
