Script Only Stack Architecture

Matt Maier blueback09 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 17:04:25 EDT 2016


I never suggested you write it. I objected to you advising the mailing list
not to include this discussion in the Dictionary because it would start
down a slippery slope towards "too big."

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Kay C Lan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> That's precisely why I advocate maintaining the Dictionary as
> >> an essential reference (as in "essence"); it should be easy
> >> to link to relevant tutorials and guides for more complete
> >> discussion when desired.
> >>
> > Could you give me an example of a Dictionary entry that has a link
> > to a Guide or Tutorial?
>
> So many things in my life would be much simpler if "advocate" meant the
> same as "have been given authority and resources to have done it".
>
> But unfortunately my world is not so simple. :)
>
> So in short, "not yet".
>
>
> > Would they just be included in the Reference Tag or as a basic html
> > link to Tutorials?
>
> Matt's request (in keeping with many others') is that we try to avoid
> requiring users to go to a generic Search or index to find things, that we
> "put the information where they need it", and I've wholeheartedly agreed.
>
> To support that I would advocate that such links would be included
> directly in the Markdown of relevant Dictionary entries.
>
> As for the alternative, in v8 I believe all tutorials and guides are
> already listed in the Help index, no?
>
>
> > Whilst I agree with you in principle, and that is certainly the
> > destination we need to be headed
>
> Glad to hear it.  Peter Brett and I have some similar ideas about how to
> take advantage of the new docs format, now that the team has completed the
> considerable task of converting everything to Markdown.  If you like that
> idea I'm sure you'll like many of Peter's even more.
>
>
> > at this point in time I've got to agree with Matt.
>
> As I have.  I've very explicitly and repeatedly encouraged people here to
> have exactly what they want by making it so:
>
>    As I've noted here before, this blog post offers some helpful
>    guidance for community members to get started contributing to
>    the documentation to make it more of they want:
>    <https://livecode.com/putting-the-you-in-documentation/>
>
> The only place Matt and I disagree is the suggestion that I write it.
>
> My work with LC is as a volunteer, not an employee.  And since my own
> experience has me inclined to try to meet the need expressed in this thread
> through different means, I'm not able to guess what other people may find
> ideal for this.
>
> In short, I have neither the time nor talent to do what's been requested
> of me.
>
> But I have encouraged others to do so.  And I continue to believe that
> adding whatever notes to a Dictionary entry one feels will prevent a
> similar question from coming up in the future is best done by doing it, or
> at least submitting it as an enhancement request to the bug queue for
> someone else to do, as opposed to just writing it here in a mailing list
> where it's almost guaranteed to be forgotten.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
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