[racket] Unified docs on info.rkt?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Wed Oct 6 16:10:34 EDT 2010

40 minutes ago, Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> I wonder: would it be effective to adjust the search engine's
> indexer to include the kind of back-references that characterize
> open systems such as the info.rkt documentation?

Probably not.  (I can't tell for sure, since my code is only a client
of the resulting index.)

But I don't think that this is the right solution.  It looks like a
better one would be for the info.rkt page to create some function that
should be used whenever you define a new *common* option.  The info
case is a good example why it should be a manual decision -- the info
files can hold any kind of information, and you don't want, for
example, the many fields that the handin-client and -server use, since
they're irrelevant as common options.

(It's true that you can do some more analysis and figure out that
those pages are overall less important -- but doing this kind of
analysis is something that is better left for a few big companies
instead of trying to reinvent some wheels very poorly.)

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