[Gambas-devel] Well, I kept my promise

[Benoît Minisini]

> 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.
> 

Of course you can rewrite documentation. But why don't you want to do that in 
the wiki?

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Benoît Minisini