Let us rephrase it:

- I would like to have a mini pillar with a simplified model and visitor
to display class comments.

- then think about Pharo 70 as the core and birth of a new generation of imageS

I will restart to revisit Pillar once I'm done with the Lecture at Prague.

Stef

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Peter Uhnak <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to propose including Pillar in the Pharo image by default.
>
> My reasoning:
>
> Since we are moving to git, and most people will use github, gitlab, and the 
> likes, it is expected to include a README.md file (or possibly more extensive 
> documentation) alongside the code.
>
> Which means that people will (and are) writing the README mostly by hand, 
> which of course is problematic, as e.g. code snippets can get deprecated, 
> screenshots become outdated, etc.
>
> As Pillar tries to address these problems, it would make sense to me to 
> include Pillar in the image by default, as anyone using git (which eventually 
> should be everyone) will most likely benefit from writing their documentation 
> in Pillar.
> Similarly using Pillar would open an avenue to provide the documentation 
> in-image, e.g. one exporter for html/markdown, and another one for Pharo's 
> Help system.
>
> I could, of course, install Pillar every time, but considering thats extra 
> effort and in the extra time I can fix the issues by hand, I don't have such 
> an incentive to use Pillar for this.
>
> Questions & Problems:
>
> I don't know by how much would pillar increase the image size. Perhaps there 
> could be (a) "lightweight Pillar" (that would include just pillar & markdown 
> exporter), or (b) we would have different images for different uses.
>
> By different images I mean something along the lines of
> a) developer image - meant to be directly used by developers to create their 
> software
> b) production image - as a foundation for running systems / users
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Peter
>

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