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audacity help doesn't work

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 22705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22705: audacity help doesn't work
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:45:34 +0100

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:

> Running audacity and then opening Help -> Manual doesn't work since, among other things, it defaults to using the local help (non-internet) and can't find it.
>
> I'd suggest one of
> (1) automatically install the local manual as well, or
> (2) default HelpMode to internet help (see audacity-minsrc-2.1.2/src/widgets/HelpSystem.cpp HelpSystem::ShowHelpDialog)

Audacity does not include the sources for he local manual.  It comes
with a script that downloads the project wiki (by jumping from link to
link) and then converts it.  In the build environment we cannot download
the wiki like that, so we would have to run the script at packaging time
and provide the wiki pages as inputs.

This sounds tedious and maintenance-intensive.  I prefer option 2.

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