Monday, June 7, 2004, 2:45:04 AM, Brett Sutton wrote: > First problem is I've no idea how to post a patch, and yes I could learn, > but so would everyone else that wants to update the docs and it's just one > more hurdle to get over (plus I'm a lazy git). > > As to the HTML ball, I assume you want to do that to deploy help. I just > wonder how many people are referencing local help these days. I for one > always go straight to the web site. It might be worth doing some sort of > survey to see how important it is.
Some people has no Internet connection at all; if they need Internet, then they have to go to the nearest "Internet Cafe", or into the college or other workplace, ...etc, and download the stuff (like Velocity tar.gz) to a floppies. Then, many people has dial-in Internet connection (56Kbit/s...), and they have to pay bill for each minutes while they are connected, also they may have to pay a fix price for each successful dialing, also they may have a maximum connection time per month. In this case, you connect, quickly download what you want to the HDD, and disconnect. And you want to repeat this as seldom as possible. So you can not use on-line documentation. The point is that, I guess, people with connection problems are typically not subscribers to mailing lists, so the survey will not show the real percentage. And, perhaps they are few in percentage (since there are fewer programmers in countries with weak IT)... I don't know... but personally, I feel bad about ignoring people who lives in those least rich countries. (And of course, even if you are a wealthy man, if you have to travel a lot with your laptop on train or airplane, where you don't have Internet connection... OK, that's a small percentage again.) > Having said that a method of creating a HTML extract from a wiki would be > nice. (As a least chance, there are downloaders that "spider" sites and download them for off-line reading. Somebody do a snap-shoot with a such downloader periodically, and tar.gz the result...) -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
