Brice, thank you for sharing your experience, I think your case should be taken as guidance for us in order to understand to which direction the project should be shepherded
+1, +10 , +100 for improving the docs. I think DocBook is really unattractive. It's never an attractive duty for me to put my hands on the XML of the manual, furthermore the markup it's not used coherently throughout the manual and I confess I mostly copy sections as templates for developing new parts, having failed to understand the power and the magic of DocBook. I'd like to find a way out of it. .. Massimo On 12/18/2014 10:56 PM, Brice Hamon wrote: > Hi guys, > > Been a newbie on Rivet does not give me inside on what was good before, > what we have done etc.. But I wanted to share my Rivet story with you. > > Just a little background on me, I have 20+ years of C/C++ programming in > distributed real time systems mostly on Unix. So web and scripting stuff is > not my forte. Too slow in my world. > > But from my experience, when I looked for a web framework to develop a real > time website, I chose Rivet because, FIRST it was under the Apache umbrella > (granted it does not mean much but gives a certain degree of credibility). > The second was because of the nature of my field, I needed a framework I > could extend in C/C++ and TCL offers that very well. And fast. > > My outsider views made me realize that Rivet has a lot of features, works > very well and is very fast. Perfect. On the other hand, the documentation > is poor, does not promote the usage of this tool. Just building and running > it correctly wasn't easy on OpenSuse and thanks to Harald and Massimo to > get me going. > > So IMO breaking away from Apache will remove the Apache flag from the > project and I fail to see the upside, outside the bureaucratic aspect of it. > > I agree with the idea of having Rivet's project samples gitted somewhere. > First creating a simple website but showing all classic feature of Rivet > would be nice to get a taste of this amazing product (as sometimes I hear > you talking about undocumented command I never used but most likely I > should). I had that topic on my TO DO list but unfortunately I have been > very busy building my new-co. I am in better shape now and would start > contributing to it. > > My 2 cents. > > Brice. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
