> > > > >4. The only person who knows what he's doing on it is Simon
himself.
> > > >
> > > > That's the problem. At least a todo list and some changelogs would
be
> > > > better than nothing.
> > >
> > > Personally I'd rather he spend time coding, than writing up useless
> > > documantation. And (I'm playing devil's advocate here, slightly) what
> > > makes you think it is any of your business how Simon chooses to spend
his
> > > time?
> >
> > What? Useless documentation???
> > Remember: DOCUMENTATION OS NEVER USELESS!!!
> > This applies to the long-term projects as SimCoupe, when many people
> > want to work on it.
> > Please read some books on software engineering, there you can see
> > some statistics from 60's-80's concerning on this fenomena.
> > Probably you will surprised how necessary documentation is.
>
> %!$$ *&& Aley - look at the context. I'm not talking about documented
> code, I'm talking about a "todo list and some changelogs" which _you_ were
> asking for.
What? Stuart Brady was asking, not me.
I wrote that documentation is necessary.
I don't mean comments in .c files, I mean standalone documentation
(probably in Word - S.Brady will shoot me again for this ....)
> Now, tell me; what good is it to you, right now, before the work is
> actually released, if Si puts up a web page saying something like:
>
> "Fixed a glitch in palette changing. Windows now minimise properly. Added
> .dsk.gz support in dialogs. To do: fix flag bug" etc etc
>
> I'm not saying it would be useless to him, but that it would be useless to
> anyone else. Without the source there's nothing you can do with that sort
> of text, and it's just wasting Si's time keeping it presentable. I imagine
> he *is* keeping his own notes and docs, but it would be a waste of his
> time, at the moment, to write those up in such a way that others could see
> and understand them.
Without sources? Are you silly??? I can't believe you wrote this...
Nobody wanted documentation without program and sources.
> Aley - don't patronise me. I know exactly why documentation is useful to
> the developers of a project. But I wasn't talking about that sort of
> documentation; and even if I was, until the source is released, you don't
> need the docs because you're not involved with the development of Win32
> SimCoupe. Get over it.
All right. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> Andrew
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