Hi,
wanting to try hyperdoc, I found a patch for hyperspec-lookup in hyperdoc.
Here are my questions:
1. (question for Erik, as hyperspec-lookup maintainer:)
hyperspec-lookup doesn't build unless the hyperspec is already installed, because it looks for files in /usr/.
Would it be possible to commit the diff in hyperdoc, which simply adds Map_Sym.txt to the distribution, allowing hyperspec-lookup to build and function without a local installation of the hyperspec as a pre-requisite?
A patch is here: http://repo.or.cz/w/hyperspec-lookup.git?a=commitdiff;h=f79a65bcb96262532ecb...
This would be important for me, because I'd like my projects to depend on hyperdoc, which depends on hyperspec-lookup, and I believe that the user experience would suffer a lot if asdf-install failed on all computers that don't happen to have the Debian package `hyperspec' installed.
2. (question for Nikodemus, who wrote hyperspec-lookup.patch:)
There's another part in that diff which adds a hyperdoc-lookup function to the HS package, but actually looks up CL symbols. I didn't apply this part, because I could not understand its purpose. It also seems outdated: hyperdoc currently passes only two arguments, not three. Is this part important?
3. (question for Nikodemus and/or Rudi, who seems to be the only person with actual commit access to hyperdoc on common-lisp.net)
Even after changing the above, lookup of CL symbols through hyperdoc didn't work for me, because introspective lookup signals an error on packages without hyperdoc support, so lookup can't fall through to the hyperspec-lookup case.
I changed this locally.
Patch: http://repo.or.cz/w/hyperdoc.git?a=commitdiff;h=03638747a633caec1034a4237322...
To get things running, I made git mirrors of the two projects and committed my changes there. Would it be possible to commit the changes upstream?
http://repo.or.cz/w/hyperspec-lookup.git http://repo.or.cz/w/hyperdoc.git
Thanks, d.