Hi, > > > On 2013-02-26 08:54, meg ford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think having useful information front and center makes sense, but we are >> trying to present an unfamiliar platform, so I think it's better to have >> some simple examples included on the main site. The majority of >> development >> is less complicated than coding for GNOME (I recently showed a friend of >> mine who writes options trading software using VBA and C++ some libxml >> functions, and he compared it to monks in the middle ages writing with >> pens, for example). >> > > libxml is a bad API to present to anyone, and I think that most users of > the API would agree. :-) There have been efforts to improve the situation, > such as GXml, but none have gained traction. There are, of course, many > examples of GNOME being complicated to develop for, so it remains a good > point. >
Sure, my point is just that developers are not handed a lot of functionality for free (for example, if you compare our platform something like jQuery UI), so it makes sense to spell things out so there is a simple route to getting an app up and running. Meg > > -- > http://amigadave.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > >
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