BLAARGH. My question has been answered so this
god-forsaken thread I started can die.
This is all degenerating into a discussion that has
already happened countless times in countless software
threads...
I've heard enough concerns, whetherv alid or invalid,
about the amount and quality of aolserver resources to
ask if there were any projects to improve and expand
what is here, however good it may be at this point.
Thanks to all you guys that gave productive input and
pointed me in the direction of other aolserver
resources.
-derek
> Sometimes I hate continuing a discussion that seems
> very off track. What
> is better, an exhaustive O'Reilly 'Definitive
> Guide', or relatively
> complete docs and a community willing to help
> someone who has at least
> read the docs that exist? I can count on one hand
> the new commands
> introduced over the last three years. The commands
> that are poorly
> documented, will probably never be useful to anyone
> unable to read
> through the C source.
>
> Even a complete novice, like me when I stumbled onto
> AOLserver, should
> be able to figure out how to get things working. And
> things have
> significantly inproved over the last three years.
>
> I'm not complaining or arguing with Dossy or anyone
> else who contributes
> to this discussion, rather, I just wonder why we all
> rush to apologize
> to someone who doesn't even appear to have set up a
> site using
> AOLserver.
>
> If someone's use of AOLserver depends on other
> people's opinion of the
> completeness of the docs, what can we say?
>
> The truth is these docs are pretty much consistent
> with any O'Reilly
> 'Definitive Guide', after a chapter or two tacked
> onto the front of the
> book so bookstore junkies actually buy the book, you
> have a listing of
> the API, and no real examples. What you really need
> is to be able to ask
> a question and get an answer in a reasonable amount
> of time. Use the
> discussion groups!
>
> Another truth is that if you can program in Tcl,
> picking up the
> AOLserver api is going to be a snap. So anything
> that teaches you Tcl
> will teach you AOLserver. I would recommend
> Ousterhout's _Tcl and the Tk
> Toolkit_ , which might be slightly outdated, but
> offers the best overall
> coverage of the why and how of Tcl.
>
>
> --Tom Jackson
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