On 3 Oct 2008, at 06:42, Brandon Savage wrote:
Hannes et. al.,
I took 15 minutes (I actually took 20), read the documentation,
installed the PEAR package and followed the directions. But I wasn't
able to finish the task in the time you gave me.
A 25% increase of required time isn't too bad! :)
Some of the challenges: I'm using a Mac and the PEAR package gave me
some trouble. Once I resolved that, everything went smoothly.
However, I'm not particularly strong in XML, and even with other
documentation to aid me, I wasn't able to do it in time.
Please write down specific problems and how you overcame them so that
others may learn or perhaps prevent these problems from happening again.
The PHP manual and HOWTO would like to not require strong XML skills
or barely any XML knowledge at all, so that's something else that can
be discussed. How would strong XML knowledge help here? Was the
template missing something? Maybe we can be specific on what parts do
not need to be touched.
An online tool would have made this a lot easier, since I would have
just logged in, written the documentation, and been done.
One note is now that you're setup you won't need to do it again, and
given that PhD is beta and still has kinks it should be easier in the
future. The HOWTO too. But yes I understand why an online tool is
attractive but offline tools are attractive too.
Regards,
Philip
