> Well done on your recent contributions to the PFV work. Thanks from > all for that. > > I don't use Emacs (yet), do you think that it is possible to write a > guide to your method, that people like me will understand?
Thank you. I will try to make it easier and document when I can. The top priority ATM is to make it easier to edit wiki pages that already have data. (*) For new pages, the tool has been *great*. Even with a rather clumsy keyboard technique, I completed over a dozen package sections in under a half hour, from empty pages to thorough descriptions. Granted, these sections were all trivially GPLv2+, but tediosity was vastly reduced and there is much room for improvement. Indeed, considering the recent discussion about the *limitations* of scripting in the PFV process, *interfaces* to tools that require (costly) *human* intervention become all the more relevent, hence the value in something like an Emacs mode. BTW, the only limitations of scripting that have been acknowledged involve *guessing* the licenses of files. The *organization* of our work has still not been adequately discussed. E.g., why do we not use a simple database such as a sqlite file? Not only would it facilitate some kinds of scripting, it might make maintenance easier. Most of all, it could have much greater *utility* and perhaps attract more people to gNewSense. In other words, we could benefit from a database-backed web site, and it does not have to be complicated. Perhaps I am missing something here--what are we lacking to do this? Thanks again. (*): A fix to this and other problems in PFV mode is on the way, but my network connection has been limited lately. I will try hard to upload it today and am looking for hosting for this project in order to unburden this list. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
