Aye, it's hot here (100F/38C or so) and I'm a little more prone to reactionary responses. Prolly why there always seems to be more fighting around the equator. B^)
Still though, I'm inherently against discouragement of volunteer efforts. 2009/7/30 Doubi <doubi...@googlemail.com>: > Dodger wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> That's f$*%ked up! >> >> [...] >> >> What, are you writing a book on WxPerl and don't want any free >> competition or something? >> >> [...] >> >> Looking up the C++ apis and going with a general knowledge >> that "It's pretty much the same, even if I don't quite understand C++ >> anyway" is crap. >> >> I encourage everyone else to ignore this posts on this subject that >> claim it's not worth the effort > > ... no need to come down on the guy for stating his opinion mate ;-) > > There's always a cost-benefit analysis to be considered in these cases. > Clearly it would be nice to have Perl specific docs, but you weigh that > against the cost of someone having to invest the time & energy to do that > and the fact that people *can* struggle through with the C++ docs now. > > I agree with you that it probably _is_ worth the effort. Johan disagrees. > He's entitled to. And I don't deny your right to disagree with him either, > but no reason to make him feel his views are invalid :-) > >> and now, more than ever, I want to >> put some together, at least regarding stuff I've done. > > That's cool. Hopefully if a bunch of people can contribute a little it won't > be the horrible slog some people fear it would be. > > Roode, Eric wrote: >> >> As I write documentation, to whom can I send it so that it'll get posted >> on the project page? > > I think this has still gone unanswered... > > Would a wiki be the easiest way to coordinate people on this? Or would that > be too unstructured? > > By the way, have y'all seen the doxygen-based wxWidgets docs, new for 2.9? > > http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_html_window.html > > Pretty nice ey? There seems to be a bit on their wiki about the process of > using doxygen. Maybe it could be an option for wxPerl. Of course, it's > another technology to have to go and familiarise with before actually > /doing/ anything :-p > > -- Ryan > -- Dodger
