[ANN] Documentation Website

Bernd Oldenbuettel bernd at oldenbuettel.de
Tue Feb 5 07:42:05 UTC 2002


On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:46:27 -0800
"Duane Maxwell" <dmaxwell at san.rr.com> wrote:

> Goran writes:
> > The Sqdb is an attempt to host comments outside of the image. I
> > personally don't know if it will succeed - it will definitely require
> > good tool support IN the image, in order to be used. But it is an
> > interesting idea nevertheless.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > SqueakDoc though seems to "clash" with Sqdb - but on the other hand,
> > that's bound to happen I guess.
> 
> Yes, it would seem to.  Frankly, I'm not so hung up on sqdb that I wouldn't
> defer to a superior solution.  I am of the opinion that the success of any
> documentation effort needs to be tightly integrated with the image.  The web
> portion of my site is there only for support - the primary interfaces are
> through XML.

Yes, I thought so. One of my intentions was, to give information to new Squeakers
or non Squeakers in a more traditional way.  

> I am very impressed by the SqueakDoc.org effort so far.  I would have no
> problem shifting my stuff to that site, linking, or mirroring, or whatever.
> Perhaps Bernd would like to see what I've done so far and adopt a similar
> solution, or take over mine.

I really would like to. 

> I think Scamper is the biggest obstacle to SqueakDoc.org at the moment.
> 
> -- Duane

Yes. I played around with some scamperable pages. But... Maybe I should wait for
table support.

Bernd




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