[teaser] for third party developers

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Wed Aug 5 10:46:47 EDT 2009


Sean, this is a really great things!

I contact you off-list on how to integrate your extension inside NativeDoc.

Damien Girard
Dam-pro, France.
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> Message du 05/08/09 10:57
> De : "Bernard Devlin"
> A : "How to use Revolution"
> Copie à :
> Objet : Re: [teaser] for third party developers
>
>
> Sean, I think this is a great idea. Not only would it centralize
> documentation for different libraries, but it could also serve as a
> kind of advert/reminder of those libraries.
>
> Many users of this list have written a wide variety of helpful
> libraries. If these libraries could have their documentation listed
> with Rev in this 'Third Party' category, then once someone had Rev
> installed merely by looking through this category they would see how
> many great solutions have been written using Rev.
>
> I'm thinking that this would need some approval from Runrev, e.g. a
> format for the docs (you wouldn't want this broken if the docs
> changed). And it would require the people who write the libraries to
> e.g. make their documentation conform to that format and either submit
> their documentation to Runrev for inclusion or make it available at a
> network reachable URL so that the Dictionary could go out to the
> internet and harvest the documentation.
>
> Just imagine how many features this would add to a Rev user's toolkit:
> date manipulation libraries, S3, mail, growl, curl, enhanced
> quicktime, error reporting, JSON, ip address resolution, kiosk mode,
> etc. I'm sure there are many more that I don't even remember.
>
> Obviously the new data grid documentation could also be included
> (although I imagine that's already on the cards for inclusion in the
> main dicationary).
>
> Alternatively, maybe we can set up a single website where developers
> could submit their formatted documentation, and then there would only
> be one place for the Dictionary to check to see if there is new
> documentation to add.
>
> Maybe some developers would prefer to just keep their stuff
> exclusively on their own site, as a way of drawing attention to the
> other things they do.
>
> I can imagine that if Runrev were to make any official way to add to
> the docs, they would want to distance themselves from the third party
> libraries.
>
> Anyway, I think it would be a way of making the whole Rev ecosphere
> stronger. I've seen it mentioned many times that only a small
> fraction of users will ever post a question to a mailing list or
> forum. They might just download Rev, think Rev can't do what they
> want, and forget about Rev.
>
> Bernard
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Shao Sean wrote:
> > I have been working on this for quite some time now and have the majority of
> > the basics working so am going to publicly mention it (a few knew about it
> > privately)..
> >
> > As the subject states, this is for the group of Rev developers who develop
> > third party add-ons but it is also for anyone who uses any of those
> > add-ons..
> >
> > What is it? It is a small hack to the IDE (no changes are made to any of
> > their files) that allows third party developers to place their documentation
> > into the Revolution dictionary into a new category called "Third Party"..
> >
> > Check out the latest screen capture < http://shaosean.tk/images/teaser2.png
> >> and anyone interested in testing it out, please feel free to email me <
> > info AT shaosean DOT tk >
> >
> > -Sean
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