On 2012-07-17, at 6:30 PM, G Brown wrote:

> What do you all think?
> 
> ...Oh, let me explain....
> 
> There is documentation for WOLips scattered in the Wonder wiki, the WOLips 
> wiki, (WebObjects wiki?) etc. 
> 
> Why? Would it be a good idea to have it in one place/wiki? And then refer 
> with those fancy hyperlink things to that one place?

I read about those, they are supposed to be really good!


> It would seem to me that would make updating it and finding it easier. It 
> would seem that the natural place would be in the WOLips wiki. I can see how 
> having it spread around makes extra documentation work and difficulties.

The root problem is that we are not organized and don't seem to be able to get 
and stay organized.


> Also, everything changes, but maybe the documentation can be set up to deal 
> with the changes better. For example, a writer could refer to the "current 
> version" throughout a document and maybe a note at the top  would say "the 
> current recommended version is 4.5 (July 2014)" and so on. Updating the 
> document often would just be changing the 4.5 to 4.6, the date, July 2014 to 
> March 2015, etc.  Anything to help keep the documentation easy to update and 
> provide clues as to what year the documentation was written. 

That seems like a good suggestion.


> It is too bad we don't have IBM's Watson computer to read the mailing list, 
> extract the juicy bits, assemble a rough draft of documentation, and email it 
> to somebody for proof reading, probably to a "Dave".  Next decade?

At least.


Chuck


> On Jul 17, 2012, at 5:19 PM, G Brown wrote:
> 
>> There is also:
>> 
>>  http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOL/WOLips
>> 
>> Getting Started
>> The easiest way to install WOLips is to follow the steps in the Install 
>> WOLips with Eclipse Update Manager tutorial. If this is your first time 
>> using WOLips, this is the recommended method for installing WOLips.
>> 
>> 
>> Also the installer should have a list of materials, or a page telling what 
>> all it does.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 17, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>> 
>>> I do agree that we need to have an installer that will install Eclipse, 
>>> WOLips, Wonder and the core WO frameworks. But we did cleanup the wiki a 
>>> lot a couple of months ago, so I would like to know which pages on the wiki 
>>> you followed, because this page:
>>> 
>>>  http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WONDER/Project+Wonder+Installation
>>> 
>>> does specify that Java is not installed by default on Lion and launching a 
>>> Java app will install the JVM.
>> 
>> 
>> G Brown
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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