James Matthews wrote: > A while ago the fact was brought up that we need a wiki for all the > pythonwin32 info! I have acquired a domain name and wish to host this wiki > but i want to know what people will want and i need people that will write > articles please emails me!
Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this! I've had our discussions about this squirrelled away in a must-do-something-about-this folder but... I'm quite happy to donate by Win32 How Do I... articles (a dozen or so, some of which are linked from the new pyfaq site). I do add to them from time to time, but less often than I'd like. Fundamentally, I think any such venture has to have a clear raison d'etre [you'll have to imagine the circumflex]. There's not much point in its reiterating things which are Python-general: that's what all the other Python docs are for. I see it as a way of overcoming the still-mildly-*nix-centredness of Python use especially in certain areas, and to reassure people in a twofold way: Python works fine on Windows and you can do pretty much everything you need; and if you want to do things on Windows, Python is a great tool to use. I'm not sure what style you're going for, or what structure, but the sort of sections I thought would be useful are (in no particular order): + Win32-specifics on various apps / modules, particularly where the authors are more *nix-oriented so special installation steps or even patches are needed. Obviously this could also be fed back to the maintainers. + Common Win32-specific question areas, such as: Excel, CDO, PDF, Word. These are the sort of things I've generated my How Do I... series from, but obviously there are loads more. I think some structure is worthwhile here because otherwise one could just check the archives of mailing lists etc. + Links to sites which provide Windows-oriented Python information, and to some extent those which are useful for the Python programmer even though not Python-oriented. There's my 2.5p-worth. Happy to contribute as far as commitments permit. TJG _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
