On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> wrote:
> Do you plan to move the stuff into a Fossil wiki, eventually? > i haven't thought that far ahead :/. My docs tend to grow pretty large, and porting them after a certain size becomes painful. > I find > Google Docs problematic enough that I typically avoid them -- and, when > there's nowhere else to get the information, I just make a local > plaintext copy, so I don't have to deal with Google Docs any more than > necessary. > You're not the only one. i'm a fanboy, but recognize that many people avoid Google and its various services (and that's fine). It would actually make sense to keep the bindings docs in the source tree, seeing as i update them as i write the code, but large docs are tedious to maintain in raw markup format (no clickable bookmarks, etc.). The script binding docs are currently 17 pages (says Tools==>Word Count) and the core th1ish docs are over 70 pages (i update those as i add/fix things found missing/broken via libfossil). Breaking that down into Fossil-manageable chunks would be a real chore. Maybe someday. Another argument against it is that i don't want anyone to get the impression that these are "the official" libfossil script bindings - they're not, they're just the ones i'm developing for libfossil-level testing/prototyping purposes. My sincere hope is that someone will eventually write other bindings in more popular script languages [which don't occasionally need to be patched while writing bindings for them]. The current th1ish bindings demonstrate to other potential binders that it can be done with "relatively little" effort if one is familiar with his scripting engine's API, and that useful applications can already be built on top of libfossil (regardless of via scripting or C/C++). Side-note: GDocs is just sooooo simple to use and does everything i want except custom styles (existing styles can be customized, but new ones cannot be created). > [1] after you've worked in GDocs for long enough you begin to feel that > > others can watch everything you type, even outside of gdocs. > > I agree with Martin G.: that's scary. > It's a weird feeling which i sometimes have episodes of after seeing people visit gdocs i'm working on. After posting doc links here there tends to be a flow of visitors over the next few hours. Yeah, it's kinda creepy at first, but you get used to it. . . . and if you're using enough Google stuff, some people *are* > probably "watching" everything you type (for some definition of > "watching" that involves running keyword identifying and text pattern > analysis routines). > If that bothered me, i wouldn't use it :). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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