2012/2/6 Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:04:08 -0200 > Rogerio Luz Coelho <luz.roge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Spliting guides woule be DESASTROUS ... imagine someone trying to get > help > > on a guide having to find the info they need on ANOTHER guide ... sorry > > this will not work, it is easier to have a step by step aproach and let > > those who need it jump to the sections they want. > > > > GS with BASE whould IMHO be related to the simple task of making a adress > > book (see BASE TUTORIAL by Mariano Casanova) > > Yes, I think this would be the best approach if we were starting from > scratch. Use one of the wizard's standard databases and show the creation > of the table(s) and input form(s), a couple of simple queries and a simple > report. Design from first principles would then be covered in the Base User > Guide. > > But we are not starting from scratch. Dan has put a lot of work into this > and I'm sure he doesn't want to see it wasted. Also it is high time we got > *something* out. It seems that Base has always lagged behind the other > modules where documentation is concerned. So cutting down the existing GS > guide and moving the deleted sections elsewhere would seem to be the best > option. I am going to try and produce a cut-down version and see if it will > work. If I succeed, I will put it into the drafts folder for review. > > > Base seems to be abandoned in the dev front also ... the bugs abound and the work is meek. The last GOOD news I saw about this component was that the drivers for "serious" DB like MySQL and PostgreSQL were being tuned to work with 3.5 ... it IS a shame.
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