In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 23:02 +0100, Peter Graf wrote: >> I don't think Richard gave up UQLX. Some other QL wheels also need to be >> turned, so there may be different priorities. Usually, if you email him, >> he sends you more recent code. >Then why is the old, uncompilable version still on his website, a site >which hasn't been updated since 2002? > >This ties in with the problem that other people raised last night about >the availability of documentation. There is too much work which has been >done but which is inaccessible for others to build on. I know that Dilwyn Jones has put most of the available documentation on his web site, which is easy to access. http://homepages.tersco.net/dilwyn.jones/index.html Copyright issues and source code are different, although they can be available is the author(s) can be tracked down for permission. >One of the many reasons I have for preferring SuperBasic to XBasic is >the availability of dbas. But this is another project which got >abandoned. I may be out of date, but the last time I looked the version >supplied with the commercial front end for it (can't remember the name) >was older than the one I'm using (2.13). Quanta had a copy of the >commented source code, not for inclusion in the library (why?), but they >lost it ... > >I even bought a Q60 to stay in the QL world (a step further than most of >those reading this rant!), but my experiences (recounted in QL Today) >were hardly encouraging. Bad documentation and lack of help. For >example, my query about how to run Text87 on it was circulated on the >internet and in Quanta, yet it took two years to find the answer: by >accident. By that time, I'd naturally switched to OpenOffice. > >I liked the QL and its operating system (rather Unix-like in a way), but >I fear the QL community are their own worse enemies. David, you should raise more issues about the Q60 on this list. I don't own one myself, yet I know at least three users who are very knowledgeable - Derek Stewart, David Gilham and Chris Cave. Of course, there will be many others too who are either very experienced or who can offer help. No need to wait 2 years again ... :-(. I will just listen in ... :-) -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
