There this dark magic in internet called Google search, as a Jedi yourself you may not use but I a sith lord myself I use it all the time. I have used more time to find out about thing than I have posted here, you know why ? Because its quite rare for google search not to able to find something. Google search is some serious black magic.
So here is the workflow Step 1- you google search "pharo documentation" , on of the top search results is the pharo website. Now the fact that Pharo has a centralised website should make you suspicious that if a centralised reference documentation is not linked there then you should be almost certain that it does not exist. Step 2- you have went through the links of the documentation and you are still convinced. No problemo, pick a library that is not documented in there and is part of the pharo official distribution, hey why not , pick 10 libraries / packages , add some DLLs to spice it up and use again google search. Do you find documentation links for them, are those links in any case centralised in a single web site ? or at least in a single pharo tool ? No. You can now safely assume that there is no such thing. This process is called deductive reasoning. Also it does not take much of browsing SO to realise that is not the right place to ask these questions. If you google pharo it even gives you the link to this mailing list. To be fair however this may not be entirely his fault and Pharo website is to be blamed here to for example in the community sub page it says "If you have any question regarding Pharo, use StackOverflow <http://stackoverflow.com/tags/pharo>." This is a mistake , a very big one. StackOverflow most definetly does not accept any question and should not be used as the main way to ask any kind questions. This should change to at least "If you have specific practical questions regarding Pharo , use StackOverflow, for generic questions use the mailing list". I sorry if I sound a bit too sarcastic but seriously we need as a internet community and I am talking about the whole internet and not just pharo , agree that we need to stress the mandatory use of google. It will save people time, especially those that ask questions and expose them in information that a forum or a QA website will never offer them. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2014-10-18 0:38 GMT+02:00 kilon alios <[email protected]>: > >> I disagree and I downvoted the question because its clear he did not even >> bother to google for documentation. >> > > He asked: "Does there exist any comprehensive reference for what each one > [Package] is" > The answer is "no". How can he found this out without asking? >
