Simeon H.K. Fitch wrote:
Any chance of having a diff appended to this email, at least of the "Table of Contents"? I'm not too sure what the use this email provides us each month without knowing what's changed since the previous month.
Not much changes. It's also not for the long termers on the list either as it assumes they know the answers already. It's for all the newbies that pop in and out and hence the highly regular posting schedules (once a week). Diffs wouldn't give you much because it has stabilised fairly well. The last time I made an update to it would be probably 3 months ago now. I've got one thing to add sometime which is the notes on the Matrox cards, and that's it. There's really no point in diffs because of the frequency of change. I've deliberately got a standard format header so you just filter it out if you're not interested in seeing it that regularly.
What would be even better are links to the HTML pages that have had some change in the past month.
There's no links because the email is plain text. There's the website URL at the top of the message and then users can look at the individual pages from there.
Are there any technical issues that inhibit something like this? Am I the only person who desires such information?
Only minor ones like the raw format being in XML, not plain text and so when the new output comes out, it overwrites the old stuff. If you need real diffs, source the XML straight from CVS, where everything is kept. I'm doing custom coversions right now without stylsheets but a chunk of Java. Some XSLT would be nice but I've never gotten around to it. Very low priority for me as the current system works well enough. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
