> Chris, > > Thanks for making the effort. We appreciate all input which is at least > "50% in the right direction" (to quote R. Gabriel). I thought you would > be more platform savvy, but that's fair enough, others can always take a > second look and build upon what you've written. So no side blow intended > on my side :). >
None taken :-) . I'm sure I'll be able to contribute properly at some point, once I've grokked the qooxdoo tool chain a bit (lot) better. > But I also just wanted to raise the level of awareness towards general > solutions. And in the face of open issues, it is sometimes better just > to mention them (like "Be careful when installing into a path with > spaces..."). > That's fine -- a short note giving a "heads up" to those who would like to try qooxdoo, but might not have had to deal with all of its requirements would do the trick. > As for fool-proof systems, unfortunately, it is impossible to build > them, neither in code nor in documentation. Once you try it, you're > entering the infinite loop. You have to make some assumptions about user > knowledge, and draw some lines as to what to document and what not, even > on entry level. Otherwise you wind up explaining desktops, mouse > pointers and ASCII codes ... ;) > Well I hope I'm not quite *that* thick ;-) In my opinion though, you should make the initial "getting started" docs (and this doesn't have to be more than 2-3 of them) quite robust -- even if that means just some notes in them to point out potential pitfalls. I think that there's a good chance that qooxdoo will become quite mainstream, and there's a rather big pool of potential developers out there who fall into my category (non-linux, command line). Some of these people might be very talented, and it would be a shame to lose them to other javascript libs that are much easier to get started with than qooxdoo. This is all meant to fall squarely into the *positive feedback* category -- I think what you guys have done is absolutely amazing and that qooxdoo is by far the most promising of all the js directions out there. :-) Cheers, -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
