> Nope, you may imagine distribute .html files with a release but not
> putting them in the svn sources. Would it be a real problem?
>
The problem is to generate the .html files, as this can be a bit tricky ;-)
> Add an option to the configure (--enable-chm?) which enables the
> compilation of .chm files.
> This option will be disabled by default. If you do not enable this
> option, you'll get an html version of the help (with its cons). If you
> really want .chm files, then you'll have to install all the dependencies.
> Of course in the release you'll have the .chm files.
>
Missunderstanding. KDE and/or GNOME uses similar (namely HTML based) mechanisms to show help. But they don't use .chm files - the .chm file format is Win32 only AFAIK - so having .chm files is pretty useless on UNIX.
In fact I don't know the details what KDE/GNOME would need to show help in their "native help" mechanisms. I'll leave it as an excercise for the interested reader ;-)
Regards, ULFL
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