Decide fate of apptools.help

[corranwebster]

This is a workbench/envisage plugin for contributing links to external documentation and demos. It uses preferences for pointing to directories which contain documentation and demo code.

It may make sense to keep for applications still using workbench; it may also make sense to create a Tasks version as well.

It may be used by Mayavi, but that is not clear.

[aaronayres35]

FWIW:

apptools.logger is definitely used in mayavi but I am not seeing any references to apptools.help explicitly.
The EEP also mentions that help is used by logger, but Im not sure that is still the case.
Searching the codebase for apptools.help you find one result in logger:

apptools/apptools/logger/agent/quality_agent_view.py

Lines 115 to 121 in 75453bd

	def _on_help(self, event):
	"""Called when the 'Help' button is pressed. """
	hp = self.service.application.get_service('apptools.help.IHelp')
	hp.library.show_topic(self.help_id)
	return

but I've seen no other references to 'apptools.help.IHelp' or IHelp in general inside the apptools.help subpackage. After searching github, it seems IHelp existed in the old enthought.help.help_plugin in an internal project.

[aaronayres35]

help is entirely untested. This is the coverage report for logger:

[kitchoi]

Offline discussion: apptools.help can go.