HistView Takes an ASCII changelog as input and outputs a formatted HTML page.
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Takes an ASCII changelog as input and outputs a formatted HTML page. HistView is an application that takes an ASCII changelog as input and outputs a formatted HTML page.When developing some piece of software, one usually records its development history in an ASCII file, preceding all changes with a "hint" of the kind of change - such as an "+" for a new addition, or a "!" for a bug fix. After a while, one decides to release the package. And a while later the question arises, how to present the latest changes to users who wish to see the list of changes first to decide whether it's worth to update. At this moment, one can just place the plain text file somewhere accessible on the net - but wouldn't it look smarter to have it formatted as a nice HTML document? If you would like this, but don't want to waste time rewriting the history in HTML, HistView ist for you: it just reads in the history file, and formats it in HTML. Provided you use a style similiar to what I do.Requirements:· PHP 4ConfigurationAs shipped, the configuration usually is such that the files would be installed as follows:Executables go to /usr/local/binConfiguration files go to /etcDocumentation goes to /usr/local/share/doc/For web apps, the installation goes to /usr/local/share/, and thisdirectory will be linked to /var/www/ - if this directory/file/link does not yet exist.If you want to install to a different location, you may change some variables at the top of the Makefile. Usually, these are:prefix=/usr/local Path for the executables is derived from thisdatarootdir=$(prefix)/share Path for webapps and documentation uses thissysconfdir=/etc Path for configuration filesWEBROOT=/var/www Just for webapps: Where to create a linkYou may as well check the other settings, but these three are the most important for you. You could also override these on the command line, e.g. with "make prefix=/opt install" - but I don't recommend that if you want to run a "make uninstall" later, since you may forget what options you used on theinstall.InstallationOnce the configuration is done, installation is as easy as invoking make installfrom within the directory where the Makefile resides. As mentioned above, you also can override some configuration options here: make prefix=/opt installfor example. But keep in mind that you need to remember these settings for the case you want to uninstall later.Uninstallis pretty much alike the install process. From the directory where the Makefile resides, simply invoke: make uninstallor, if you were overriding some options when calling "make install", you need to specify the same here: make prefix=/opt uninstallThe uninstall process will remove everything it has installed - but nothing that you created yourself later (usually; if you e.g. added a file to the documentation directory in /usr/local/share/doc/< packagename >, this will be removed as well since we remove the entire directory. You are not expected to do modifications here) using this application, as e.g. template files, or "personal" configuration files you created in your home directory. What's New in This Release: · This version brings some major improvements, making the Download Class much more powerful: it now can ignore or reject bots and crawlers, it no longer "stops" on failed database activities (download counter update), and you even can completely disable these statistic functions. · Moreover, all the classes now use a central central configuration to make their use easier.

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