<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div class="zmail_extra" style="" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Tue, 19 May 2020 07:02:58 -0400 <b>K K Subbu <<a href="mailto:kksubbu.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">kksubbu.ml@gmail.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1"><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">There are already two "help" methods in Squeak: <br></div></div><div><br></div><br><div class="zmail_extra" style="" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><br></div><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Now there are three if you want them:<br></div><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></pre><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>MCHttpRepository<br></div><div>location: '<a href="http://www.squeaksource.com/Doc" target="_blank">http://www.squeaksource.com/Doc</a>'<br></div><div>user: 'tty'<br></div><div>password: ''<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doc help<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><div>'I am Squeak help that is solely CLI based. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The idiom is "command line" only, similar to Linux man or GNU info way of doing things.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Doc help<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2020.05.19<br></div><div><br></div><div>Goals: display a class comment. Update a class comment, append to a class comment. prepend to a classs comment.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Problem statement:<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is plenty of Help available for Squeak, however, it is NOT in Squeak.<br></div><div>Empirically people do not like to write help as evidenced by Class comments or the HelpBrowser.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The problems therefore are "ease of creation", "aggregation", "display" and "storage".<br></div><div><br></div><div>Current thinking is to utilize Visitor and Decorator (?) Builder (?) patterns to build a me.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will contain Doclets, which are things that wrap a particular kind of help: Use cases, examples, terse guide, mail discussionts, comments.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will be building in comments , similar to StackOverFlow with ratings, date, etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would love this thing to grow with Squeak over time.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>all the best.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>'<br></div></div><br></body></html>