On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Lewis Cawte <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I realize also that from a developers point of view, maintaining a WIKI is a 
>> PAIN !!!!
>> it is much easier to stay inside one's text editor (or whatever tool is 
>> being used to write and modify
>> the code with) and to update things like the "CONTENTS" and "README" files. 
>> But that is a choice
>> you have made... transferring your documentation from "standard" internet 
>> style to Wiki style.
>> However, that choice implies much more work is necessary to keep the two in 
>> sync.
> Maintaining any documentation is a pain, I actually find it easier to
> maintain a wiki however (I take no credit for the Pywikipedia
> documentation, it is something I tried to start some interest in
> cleaning up before, but nothing became of that), and it's rather fitting
> since this is a tool to be used with wikis.

This is one point we absolutely agree on ... the only thing which has lower 
priority than
documentation is "accounting" (both financial and tracking) -- They are both 
"after thoughts."



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William H. Magill
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