Hi Nicolas,

Le 21 juil. 08 à 21:49, Nicolas Roard a écrit :

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:18 PM, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> wrote:
>> On 21 Jul 2008, at 16:15, Nicolas Roard wrote:
>>>>>> For Camaelon, does Nicolas have an opinion?
>>>
>>> What exactly is not stable ?.. (not saying there's nothing to  
>>> improve,
>>> just asking if there are stability issues right now?)
>>
>> I think there is an issue with Camaelon + GORM (I remember having to
>> turn of Camaelon for GORM, not sure if this is fixed).  There are
>
> Really? Thas sounds suspiciously like a problem with the poseAs for
> the icons -- but then it's really weird as it's a bug that was fixed  
> a long
> time ago. Maybe something changed ...

Yes. I recently stumbled on the following one which I initially  
wrongly submitted as a Gorm bug:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23651
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23654 <-- this one is probably a  
Camaelon bug too, it has vanished since I recreated the gorm file with  
Camaelon turned off

>> also a few controls which are incorrectly drawn.
>
> Do we have a list ?

Popup button, may be table headers. That's all I remember right now.
In my previous mail in this thead, I also mention other issues.

>>>>>> What other thing should be in
>>>>>> this release?  User applications are less of a priority - we have
>>>>>> until 0.5 to get them really polished - but it would be nice to
>>>>>> have a
>>>>>> few working, at least as examples.
>>>
>>> Well, there's the documentation stuff that I need to submit asap,
>>> and we should have after that an ok documentation process that we  
>>> can
>>> use. As a dev/framework release, documentation should be one of our
>>> main focus. Actually, shouldn't we try to write tutorials (even
>>> short) ?
>>> This might be worth delaying the release by a month, in fact.
>>
>> Documentation for frameworks is important, as are examples.
>
> Right. There's three steps imho:
> 1/- basic documentation of the frameworks, gsdoc-style
> 2/- added documentation more about the how / broad view, still  
> focused on
> frameworks (and bits of "how to do this step..." / cookbook)
> 3/- tutorials
>
> If we are going to focus on 0.4 being a developer release, I think  
> we have to
> concentrate on the documentation -- else it's just a tech demo.
> #1 is already mostly done, and is mostly automatized
> #2 and #3 are independant, #2 might be easier to write after having
> written some #3 ;-)
>
> I think that #3 is the most important for a dev release -- we need  
> very simple,
> very short application(s) that we can use as an example of
> EtoileUI/Pragmatic Smalltalk/CoreObject, and we need to write small  
> tutorials
> about them.
>
> Think about it : you are a developer that /might/ be interested by
> Etoile, maybe haven't even installed gnustep or etoile. The next step
> after looking
> at screenshots (...) is to look for a very short tutorial, to see if
> it's worth your time.

Agreed. #2 will probably very hard to achieve in the current time  
frame though.
Having frameworks almost fully documented at API level + examples is  
already good. When Apple released the first version of Mac OS X, Cocoa  
API documentation was almost non-existent and cookbooks/guides only  
started to appear with 10.2 iirc.

>> I was seeing the structured editor as a CodeObject developer example,
>> as well as a usable app.  I also want to write a simple outliner in
>> Smalltalk as a demo.  It doesn't have to be feature-complete for 0.4,
>> but having it working with some basic functionality would be nice.
>
> Well, if the Structured Editor was finished we could encapsulate it
> in a set of classes that certainly would be neat to use for showing  
> small
> cool apps... but it's not, and frankly considering my very low  
> thoughput
> I don't want to promise anything.


ok :)

Cheers,
Quentin.


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