[Gambas-devel] Well, I kept my promise

[Kadaitcha Man]

2009/12/9 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:

> These are the words you used. But I don't see concretely what the problem is
> with the wiki.

I know you don't see the problem. You are a technical person :)

> Examples of concrete things:
>
> - Somebody should write an example like the wxPython demo.

I already addressed that. I implied I would take a look at it and
consider if it was feasible writing something similar in Gambas.

> - We should be able to attach Gambas sources archives to the wiki.
>
> ...
>
> Examples of even more concrete things:
>
> - Here is the example.
>
> - Here is a clean and beautiful patch that allows to add Gambas sources
> archives to the wiki.

lol - Benoit, "clean and beautiful" is 100% subjective, not objective
like concrete is.

>> > A lot of people have no problems with writings things in Wikipedia,
>>
>> Every person in the whole world can insist that "X is true", but it
>> does not logically follow that X is indeed true.
>>
>> > so I don't see the
>> > point with writing things in the Gambas wiki.
>>
>> <shrug>
>>
>> Too bad. How sad.
>>
>
> If you want to write documentation, but does not want to use the wiki, you
> can. Many people already did that before.

I don't want to be counted among the many. I prefer to stand out and be noticed.

> But again: almost every project I know use a wiki to write documentation. So I
> don't see the problem with the wiki.

Benoit, that's like saying you won't fly in a jet because nobody ever
had a problem flying in balloons during the French Revolution. Good
grief, man. If everyone clung to that basic idea we'd still be in the
dark ages shovelling cow muck into great piles with a pitch fork.

Let me make a slightly different proposal, hopefully a win-win.

I will offer to rewrite and restructure the Gambas help browser help
text, in English, and I will offer to make sure it includes the hooks
you and Fabien need to link the gb3 context-sensitive help into.
Furthermore, contrary to what I believe is Fabien's rather odd
notions, I will guarantee that there will be no loss of technical
information whatsoever.

In return, you sanction and support my work, and how you get the
rewritten help text into the wiki is your problem not mine.

Yes or no will suffice. I'm done with trying to convince you and
Fabien that this a desperately needed change.