On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:59:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > I'd not consider documents in a wiki to be a problem just because of > > dial-up. > > I have observed, however, that in almost every case in projects I'm > > interested > > in, that wiki documentation has been mostly worthless -- but that's a rant > > for another day. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, of course (by the > > presence of fantastic wiki-based documents). > > Well, if the Wiki turns out to be the master set of docs in the long > run, and we can generate html and/or text from them to go into the > distributions (and CVS), then my "grep" will still work. I tend to > use grep a lot, and find it faster to work with text documents than > I do web docs. Also it takes a while to bring up a web browser plus > if there's any graphics on the web pages they're very slow to load > over a dial-up.
I do prefer having local documentation in plain text, and use grep (and "less" with its search function, and emacs, and vi...) to find stuff much more quickly than I usually can on any wiki I've ever had the misfortune of trying to get answers on. As long as there is a consistent effort to distill the contents of the wiki into offline documentation I'm fine with it, but would hate to see the offline stuff go away or turn into the red-headed stepchild. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
