Re: historical question
On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 12:35 PM Robert Goldman wrote: > I'm open to an ASDF history section being added to the manual, or a separate > ASDF history web page being added that would be linked from index.html. > > But I'm not open to doing this myself! I would accept a PR. > > Actually, isn't this information available in some of the ILC papers? If so, > isn't that sufficient? A historical writeup is right up my alley. I think it can bind together the information that was in the ILC papers. Is a doc/history.md page alright, similar to the best_practices.md document? Should I remove the information from the index.html page as I put it in history.md, leaving a link to the new document instead? I'm thinking particularly of the pseudo-changelog at the bottom of the page, but also part of the documentation section, and the discussion of obsolete alternatives (a lot of it currently commented out, but I intend to move it all to the new document and uncomment the stuff there, maybe in a different subsection). —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection• http://fare.tunes.org “Each party only has to LOOK better than the other before the vote. After, it can BE worse. Then the other only has to compete with THAT. Lather, rinse, repeat...”
Re: historical question
On 1 Feb 2024, at 11:13, Faré wrote: Looking at said doc/index.html, I see that a lot of references to historical ASDF alternatives were commented out—why not keep them, if only in a separate paragraph or section? Or move them somewhere deep in the manual? I believe they have historical value, too. I'm open to an ASDF history section being added to the manual, or a separate ASDF history web page being added that would be linked from index.html. **But** I'm not open to doing this myself! I would accept a PR. Actually, isn't this information available in some of the ILC papers? If so, isn't that sufficient?
Re: historical question
I think we should add this link, as well as a link to the original README in git (which I suppose subsumes the original defsystem proposal link in the archived email) somewhere in doc/index.html. Looking at said doc/index.html, I see that a lot of references to historical ASDF alternatives were commented out—why not keep them, if only in a separate paragraph or section? Or move them somewhere deep in the manual? I believe they have historical value, too. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection• http://fare.tunes.org “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” ― Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 9:34 AM cage wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:38:29AM +0100, Rudolf Schlatte wrote: > > Hi! > > [...] > > > If you need a definitive answer, you could ask Dan Barlow, he's on the > > fediverse at @d...@brvt.telent.net > > The funny thing is that I realized that the person I talked with on > the fediverse in the last days, is Him! > > He provided a link that I pasted below because I think is very > interesting for an historical perspective of ASDF development. > > https://sourceforge.net/p/cclan/mailman/message/2011712/ > > Bye! > C.
Re: historical question
On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 10:38:29AM +0100, Rudolf Schlatte wrote: Hi! [...] > If you need a definitive answer, you could ask Dan Barlow, he's on the > fediverse at @d...@brvt.telent.net The funny thing is that I realized that the person I talked with on the fediverse in the last days, is Him! He provided a link that I pasted below because I think is very interesting for an historical perspective of ASDF development. https://sourceforge.net/p/cclan/mailman/message/2011712/ Bye! C.
Re: historical question
Rudolf Schlatte writes: > cage writes: > >> Hi! >> >> Some person (including me) was wondering when the ASDF project >> started; on the fediverse someone guessed that the 25th anniversary >> could be near. Is that true? > > If you need a definitive answer, you could ask Dan Barlow, he's on the > fediverse at @d...@brvt.telent.net ... he isn't on that address, but in my defense it was rewritten by gmane. Try @ dan @ brvt dot telent dot net
Re: historical question
cage writes: > Hi! > > Some person (including me) was wondering when the ASDF project > started; on the fediverse someone guessed that the 25th anniversary > could be near. Is that true? If you need a definitive answer, you could ask Dan Barlow, he's on the fediverse at @d...@brvt.telent.net
