I wanted to inform DevHelp developers and users that it's now possible
to convert full books in CHM and HTB into DevHelp book format, by using
a generic HTML Help book framework I wrote in Python:
  
http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/api/python/

Basically, to convert a CHM book into a DevHelp is as simple as:

  hhconvert /path/to/book.chm /path/to/book.tgz

  The code is only available in the subversion repository - there is no
  tarball as the code is not yet ready for prime time.

  That said I also want to inform that I'll stop providing more books in
  DevHelp format, i.e., I'll no longer update those in
  http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/books/devhelp.php . There is no intention in
  making DevHelp a full-fledge viewer. It has very limited functionality
  compared e.g., with PHP+MySQL web interface as in
  http://htmlhelp.berlios.de/web/php.php and something similar can be done
  much more easily with Python as in http://gnochm.sourceforge.net . I
  still would like to have a nice documentation browser in gnome, but I
  think DevHelp is no longer the way to achieve it.

  If anybody still wants DevHelp books they can make it themselves using
  the above process.

  In the near future I'll implement the opposite, i.e., allow convertion of
  DevHelp books into CHM/HTB, to use with the GTK/GNOME documentation.

  I hope you find this useful/interesting.

José Fonseca

Mail originally at:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2004-January/msg00056.html