Minimalist Online Docmentation

08 Oct 2002

Thanks to the support of the EMS Environment Institute, MOD has been released under the GPL and has moved to sourceforge. The new homepage is:

http://moddoc.sourceforge.net

In addition, several important improvements have been made to make MOD a little more user-friendly:

• Icons now get installed automatically. You no longer need to specify their locations in the config file (in fact the options are no longer recognized).
• mod2html now has a man page.
• An installation script is now included with the distribution. This installs the mod2hmlt script and makes sure its internal settings match your environment. It also installs the man page, and the supporting files that are needed for the dynamic index.
• You no longer need to create a .mod directory, config file, or default template. If they are not detected when you run mod2html, it will offer to create them for you.

There are also some other important changes:

• The Digest::MD5 module is now required, in addition to the Tree::DAG_Node module. Previously, some MD5 code was included in the mod2html script itself. Both modules are available from cpan.org.
• Distributions are now GPG signed. My public key is available here or from any of the public PGP keyservers. The ID is 0x0555B6E0.

Version 0.51 is now available that incorporates all of these changes. It is available now from ftp.sourceforge.net .

03 Sep 2002

Version 0.50 released.

After a long break from development on this project, an option to create a dynamic index has been added. It was found that the static HTML index could get too large and cumbersome to display, even for sites that weren't necessarily that big. The new dynamic index uses javascript and cookies to create an expandable/collapsable index tree that mimics the Windows Explorer style.

The default style is still static HTML. Downsides to the dynamic style are a slower initial download time (the script is 33KB, but it only needs to be loaded once for the entire destination), and reliance on javascript and cookies being turned on in the browser.

22 May 2001

I finally spent the time to update this site with the changes that I've been making to MOD over the past month. There is now a tutorial.

15 May 2001

Version 0.36 released. Available for download from my ftp directory. Note that the documentation included in the tarball is hopelessly out-of-date. Please use the official site on the web instead.