[racket] Linking to docs for Planet2 packages

Just in case this can help, there is githubpreview, and maybe pages.github:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8446218/how-to-see-an-html-page-on-github-as-a-normal-rendered-html-page-to-see-preview

Haven't tried, but I suppose it's probably not the perfect solution.
Laurent


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is one of the items on the list of future work:
>
>
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet2/Future_Plans.html#%28part._.Long_.Term%29
>
> It's not trivial because (a) the package system only ships source, not
> compiled things like docs; (b) packages can have many Scribble documents as
> their documentation; and (c) the main distribution mechanism, Github, is
> designed for source and not HTML. Obviously it would be trivial to allow
> package authors to add a link in their package description to docs
> somewhere, but that wouldn't be very robust and would put a lot of work on
> them.
>
> Jay
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Michael Wilber <mwilber at uccs.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey there!
>>
>> Is there any convention for linking to docs from planet2's online list
>> of packages?
>>
>> E.g. as a user, it would be nice to have a "Click here to see
>> documentation" link from, say,
>> https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/disassemble that either links to the
>> scribbled docs in the source or to a URL specified by the package author
>> in info.rkt or somewhere.
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