Drupal core includes the help module and there is also the contrib module advanced_help. These do not appear to exist in backdrop. I thought it would be useful even if all it does is provide a GUI that helps to display the readme file of modules and allows for more details.
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Interesting idea. You can put a port/new module request here:
https://github.com/backdrop-ops/contrib/issues
Someone recently ported the D7 core blog module as a contrib to help with migrations.
If it was just looking at the Readme, then could be fairly standard, but what you would need to factor in is that many README's have code snippets in; the current project listing on Backdrop doesn't handle these well so may need to look at a parser as a dependency
Heya @yorkshirepudding,
The /backdrop-contrib/help module has some very interesting possibilities!
Thanks for the tip!
g.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have gone ahead and added the port request, https://github.com/backdrop-ops/contrib/issues/726
I'm not sure of the chronology of this as there is no date on the post. But, the following post shows that the Help module was removed (or excluded) from the core of Backdrop.
https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/features-removed-from-core
Hello,
I, for one, like systems that offer a help subsystem. Maybe this is a legacy from my VAX/VMS days? Anyway, I am wondering if including a Help Module in BCMS could be resurrected as a topic please?
The entire Help Module code base seems pretty small/simple at 36k:
# ls -lh | awk '{print $5,$9}'2.5K help.admin.inc138 help.css254 help.info4.2K help.module133 help-rtl.css4.5K help.testDoes anyone object to me taking a stab at "porting" the Drupal 7 Core Help Module so as to make it BCMS-friendly?
Are there any huge barriers to this (other than manpower resources) I don't know about?
g.
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