I'm sorry - but I'm going to argue.
Hi!
Just in that very unlikely case when you really didn't understood sense of
reply you got from Lex Trotman (and not just trying to be a troll) I'll
try to explain.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 08:37:54PM +0000, james wrote:
I guess I'm asking '... and is it any good?'.
It does what its developer wanted it to, depends if you want the same.
Were your comments meant to be helpful?
Keeping in mind how "concrete" your question was, the answer tries to
deliver as much information as possible: it is good enough, at least for
it developer, so chances are it will be useful for someone else too.
Actually, that gives absolutely no information at all, since there is
somewhat limited information on the developer's website about what it
DOES do and I CAN read. And in any case, the author's use case may be
quite specific and I though the way to find out would be to solicit
experiences from others.
The project seems inactive.
Because it does what its developer wants it to, and nobody else has
offered any improvements in other areas.
Did I miss the bit that actually WAS helpful?
Yep, you miss it. That bit is: inactive project doesn't mean abandoned,
broken, useless, etc. Sometimes it's inactive just because it do it work
well, there no known bugs, and no one want/able/need to improve it.
And we don't know in this case, do we? The wiki suggests that there are
definitely known limitations, but as a non-asciidoc user, its hard for
me to determine how problematic they are in practice.
Just stop talking and try to use it. And then report here your success or
failure, I think many will be interested in this information.
And that's the point. I'm not currently using asciidoc and its a
non-trivial exercise to evaluate something. So I thought I'd ask
whether other people had used it and maybe come to understand what their
experiences were, but the responses have been almost completely unhelpful.
I say 'almost' because I can infer from Jens' post that it does indeed
install and run in some capacity on someone else's machine and isn't
completely busted, at least for some unspecified platform and asciidoc
version.
What is unreasonable in soliciting experience from others?
What is unreasonable in thinking that 'hey, it worked for the author so
try it' is essentially valueless?
What do you think I should have done to make my question more
'concrete'? It was deliberately an open question soliciting practical
experience. How should I phrase it to avoid pointless responses like
Lex's or yours?
I'm not trying to troll, really, I'm trying to find out whether its
worth investing time to try properly - which will involve moving from
Sphinx to asciidoc (which, long ago, I tried and discarded, but I'm
keeping an open mind).
If I ask for others experiences, how - exactly - is it helpful to be
told to go and get my own and report back?
If I wanted to do that, I would have done it already: the reality is
that I'm better off concentrating on my C++ code and documentation
thereof, not messing around with yet another markup that may or may nor
work out.
-- WBR, Alex.
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