I can agree that there's not enough reference material on the DynAPI. However people tend to expect way too much about this too and not look enough around. Many questions are answered in the existing material, and its not too hard to access it, but people are used to be served this. This is true in the commercial world too, only the fact that you actually pay for it to be included in the original package (one way or the other)which gives you the right to reclaim something if some basics are not furfiled. So not the case with something you recieve without paying a dime.
I'm not saying its wrong to want easier access to reference material, but there's no automatic responsabilities with an Open Source product. You've got free access to the product; you are able to use, look at and alter the product; and on top of it you've got ways of communicating with the developers about the product. But the responsability isn't just with the active developers, but with the community - ie including the users themselves. The developers have already done much more than they are required to (ie more than zero). Isn't it fair that someone else adds the missing pieces as they find them and are able to? Also, consider paying someone to do the docs. If you can't do with what there alredy is, and require something more that nobody has already felt the urge to provide you with for free - something you yourself are unable or otherwise won't do - you always have that option. I can promise you that any of the developers would gladly be at service for that, since it would allow most of them to do that within their regular work hours (FYI: most of the developers are do work at professional webdesign firms and do work for hire there). As for myself, my knowledge doesn't cover even half of DynAPI 2's feaures, and as such I couldn't be able to write any good docs or tutorials, though I consider myself quite a creative writer (my lacking english aside). I could of course devote myself to learn as much of DynAPI to do the docs. But ho can blaim me if I don't? I think the simple fact is that the talents that created and understands most of DynAPI are also very busy in their professions and/or elsewhere. Also, keeping up to peoples expectations, while most requests were of an discourrging nature and oftenmost very incomplete (ie "Why doesn't this and that work?" and not much more to even go on) isn't very tempting to anyone I imagine (unless someone of a self-suffering nature :P ) I personally don't think that what has happened is that the developers have abandoned the project(which I'm far from sure is anything but temporary), but that the community spirit became less and less encouraging for anybody to care much for offering anything more. After reading up on what makes an Open Source hacker (as in programmer, software solver) I've realized that I myself haven't had anything close to an idea of what it takes. I'll probably remain a OpenSource-hacker-wannabe for quite some time yet... Henrik Våglin [ hvaglin@yahoo ] --- James Musick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > I was wondering...does anyone know if these are > ever updated, or who > typically does this? > > DynAPI is really cool & useful, but it seems to me > that it's really hard > to get rolling with it because when one gets stuck > there is only the > dynapi-help list to go to, and the response is kind > of variable depending on > whether people have time, etc. > Simple things (such as my recent email about how > to loop through all > DynAPI objects) could easily be on an FAQ or in a > 'basics' tutorial which > would really help people get going. > > Does anyone have a sense for whether DynAPI > development/use is > inreasing...or is this something that is kind of > fizzling out? I'm not > asking to be rude, but because it seems like > currently there is a small-ish > group of very advanced users and a larger group of > beginning/intermediate > users but not real change in the size of these > groups. > Maybe it's just my impression from this list, > which has somewhat sporadic > usage. > > Anyone have similar/different opinions? > > -James > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN > Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of > that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > Dynapi-Help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help ===== // Henrik Vaglin ************************************************** Visit my comics artpage at http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/hvaglin?d&.flabel=fld5&.src=bc ************************************************** _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet på www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dynapi-help
