Improving the dictionary [was: LiveCode release notes]

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Wed Dec 16 15:16:10 EST 2015


Thanks Monte, looks like that might help.


Pete
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:

> Pete they are all little markdown files in the livecode repo:
>
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/develop/docs/notes <
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/develop/docs/notes>
>
> You can use git to extract a list of notes added between two tagged
> versions:
>
> put shell("git diff 6.7.8-rc-4 6.7.8 --diff-filter=AM --name-only —
> ‘docs/notes'") into tFiles
>
> You probably want to modify this to add stuff to a database:
>
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/builder/release_notes_builder.livecodescript
>
>
> > On 17 Dec 2015, at 6:02 am, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> >
> > That would certainly help.  I still believe a fully searchable database
> of
> > the release notes would be useful though and still willing to take that
> > on.  I need to be able to minimize or even eliminate the manual effort
> > required to enter the release note data into the database.  I don't
> believe
> > I can do that using the pdf versions of the release notes so if there is
> > indeed an html version somewhere as mentioned recently, I'd love to get
> > access to it in the hope that I can parse it programmatically and load it
> > into the database.
> >
> > Pete
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> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Peter TB Brett <
> peter.brett at livecode.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 15/12/2015 19:26, Mark Wieder wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 12/15/2015 11:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Most of the entries do show the initial release date in the dictionary
> >>>> but the problem is that we often can't recall what term to look up.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Also, bug fixes don't necessarily fall into that category and probably
> >>> won't show up in the dictionary.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Anything that changes the behaviour of the syntax definitely should be
> >> noted in the dictionary.
> >>
> >> If it doesn't change the behaviour but just, for example, improves
> >> performance or fixes a crash in a pathological case, then it generally
> >> shouldn't be noted in the dictionary.
> >>
> >> The core dev team tries very hard to *not* change behaviour of existing
> >> script syntax where it can be avoided -- because it's important not to
> >> break stacks that currently work (c.f. discussion about "save" vs
> >> "stackFileVersion").
> >>
> >> I would like the dictionary to have a way to search its entries by "last
> >> changed in", "introduced in", and "deprecated in", but it currently
> looks
> >> like we won't have time to introduce that in 8.0.0.
> >>
> >>                                        Peter
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> >> LiveCode Open Source Team
> >>
> >> LiveCode on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/livecode
> >>
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