On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Kobi Shmueli <kobi@dal.net> wrote:
Personally, I think HelpServ should include a few basic things like umodes and cmodes maybe but the rest of them should go to the website because they'll likely to be long..
Maybe so.. though it would be (sort of) a change of the purpose of HelpServ. if the convenience of an on-IRC modes listing is esp. useful, then it may be worthwhile. Full documentation for IRC and all the IRC clients is so extensive, that web pages are a preferable medium (they are easier to maintain). HelpServ docs I believe are just a straight-up dump of IRCI docs? So users on shared servers where IrcII was installed with #define HELP_SERVICE in their config.h (or /set HELP_SERVICE), will be able to use the "/help" command which (In IRCII with HELP_SERVICE enabled) sends /msg commands to HelpServ when the user types /help. The help topics are then probably in the same format as the IrcII docs. That is: flat text files, with possibly some control codes By today's disk space standards, the helpfiles are no longer considered large; most new IrcII installations ought to have them, and use full docs, instead of help service mode. There are so many variants of IrcII with different command sets, that it would be difficult/impossible to document them all. The vanilla IrcII documentation is likely to be inadequate for most users' clients. Further indeed... I see no strong reason that IrcII commands should be documented with higher priority over Irssi, X-Chat, IrcII-EPIC, BitchX, or Ircle commands. _Unless_ there are still a bunch of IrcII users utilizing HelpServ as their HELP_SERVICE (which I suspect is extremely unlikely) -- -J