Re:Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software dev...
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:19PM
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Not experienced with Zeal, but I have used devdocs, which is open source. Devdocs parses the relevant documentation pages and stores them in a more structured way inside a browser database file. I would prefer to keep that in a local SQLite file I fully control. However, storing the data is not enough, I need an easy way to search and browse the documentation. Datasette is a Python project which spawns a web interface to a SQLite database which gives an interactive way to explore the data. This interface should be sufficient for locally hosting and searching the documentation.
Is the Zeal code open source enough that one could change the backend by replacing a small number of data access subroutines?
I think all you would need to change is setter code, since getter code wouldn’t be part of the interface. I think Zeal doesn’t write back any data, right ?