FAQ: Re:problem with sources

Ryan Davis zss at ZenSpider.com
Mon Nov 16 18:08:55 UTC 1998


>I ran into a frustrating, yet interesting, problem over the weekend with
>Squeak
>2.2 running on a Mac. While browsing source methods, I noticed that many (but
>not all) methods would show up in the source window with the first letter
>missing, e.g. "mphasizeLabel" and "nitialize" for "emphasizeLabel" and
>"initialize." My standard test case was the TextAttribute methods, which all
>displayed the problem. And accepting any changes for these corrupt methods
>resulted in creating a new, misnamed version of the method.

THIS is why we need a REAL FAQ. Swiki by itself will not do because:

1) It isn't independent of the web (not downloadable).
2) It isn't guaranteed to be up and running.
3) It isn't KNOWN by everyone.

We need an automated weekly posting that states:

1) Where the FAQ in ASCII format lives.
2) Where the swiki is (including several URLs for various known topics)
3) How to subscribe/unsubscribe from the list.

The FAQ should be written and live in swiki, but should be automatically
extracted every day (or so). This would REALLY help cut down on the more
frequent problems that arise on this list, improve the quality of the
squeak community w/ little individual effort, and improve the beginner
squeak experience considerably...

(I could even imagine some BUILT IN squeak snippet that would go retrieve
an up to date version of the FAQ w/ a click of a button--no pain, lots of
gain).

           Ryan Davis         -=-    Zen Spider Software
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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but,
I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.





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