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The package scrollkeeper-example2 illustrates how one can easily create a package which installs documentation and OMF metadata and registers it with ScrollKeeper. This document is part of the scrollkeeper-example2 package and explains how the package is constructed and how you can modify an existing package to install and register its documentation with ScrollKeeper. To make things as easy as possible, this package also provides template Makefiles which can be used as-is with most packages, eliminating the need for packagers to write or customize Makefiles for the documentation in their package.
Note that this document is meant to be brief in order to keep things simple, and thus it is not an exhaustive explanation of how ScrollKeeper works. For additional information, look inside the various files in this package and at the ScrollKeeper Manual and man pages, available in the scrollkeeper package.
This package is maintained in SourceForge CVS for ScrollKeeper in the scrollkeeper_examples module. You can easily download this example from CVS by following these instructions and then by checking out the scrollkeeper_examples module. Or, you can download the latest packaged version here. Note that if you download and install a binary package for scrollkeeper-example2, you should also unpack the tarball into a directory to refer to as you read this document and update your package.
ScrollKeeper is an open documentation cataloging system. It manages document metadata (as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF)) and provides a simple API to allow help browsers to find, sort, and search the document catalog. It will eventually be able to communicate with catalog servers on the Net to search for documents which are not on the local system. Right now it is a very simple system, but we have many powerful features planned for it.
For more information on ScrollKeeper, see the ScrollKeeper web site and read the ScrollKeeper Manual and man pages which are part of the scrollkeeper package.
ScrollKeeper is in development. This package illustrates how to set up packages to work with ScrollKeeper 0.3.x and 0.4.x. Future versions of ScrollKeeper will take advantage of more metadata in the OMF files than is currently used, and may introduce features which will require modifications to the installation setup to use.
Please send feedback, questions, etc. to the scrollkeeper-devel mailing mailing list. You will need to subscribe to the mailing list before you can post to it. Alternately, you can also email directly to the author of this document at <muet@alumni.uchicago.edu>.