#2923 BLOC Trial-3: makeIndex.py needs to be updated and optimized

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#2923: makeIndex.py needs to be updated and optimized
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  Reporter:  lauren   |       Owner:  Simon  
      Type:  task     |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  library  |     Version:         
Resolution:           |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0        |  
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Changes (by sj):

  * owner:  sj => Simon


Comment:

 see the makeIndex.py and new html in this bundle:
 http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/Library-latest.tar.gz

 This gets rid of the frames and related problems of previous iterations,
 and uses a template system that will remain useful when we move towards a
 more dynamic library-view that relies on a local webserver.

 makeIndex.py should be run each time a new bundle is installed.  It looks
 in every subdirectory of Library/ for a library/library.info file
 (indicating it's a bundle) and an index.html file (indicating it is
 browsable).  It generates a sidebar from the browsable bundles, and
 creates a bundle_index.html in each of those directories wrapping the
 existing index in the sidebar.

 This is fairly robust to bad bundles; if the script somehow dies before
 processing one of the bundles it simply doesn't update the index pages.
 The robustness could be improved in the future with more clever defaults
 and handling for css class clashes.

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