() Adam Spiers <[email protected]> () Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:21:25 +0000
I can't really understand the point of this project just from the README. In particular, it's not clear to me (as a Texinfo user and occasional author) what "fully semantic", "arbitrarily accessible", and "runtime configurable" mean, and hence what IXIN is intended to offer over Texinfo, since I would have thought that these characteristics could already be used to describe Texinfo. I suspect I could answer my own questions by looking at the project closer and/or reading past threads on the list, but if you want your project to attract wider interest, I would definitely recommend clarifying this in the README. Thanks for the feedback! (It's on the border of "constructive" and "non-constructive", but hey i'm just happy to see it. :-D) I suppose some clarification on IXIN scope is indicated, to underline that IXIN does not replace Texinfo, but instead is an output format (one among many) that Texinfo can produce. Like the HTML output format, IXIN is not meant for human consumption (although it is text, after all, and some humans like to explore text w/ text editors, so really we shouldn't discriminate...), and is normally "rendered" by another program. Now, where to put this blurb, in README or The IXIN Chronicles, or both, that's the next (minor) question to consider... Anyway, to make it easier to ponder these things (and perhaps tip future feedback into the unambiguously "constructive" bin), here for the link-soup-swillers are the direct URLs for the IXIN homepage, the HTML output version of The IXIN Chronicles, and the latest release tarball: http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/ http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/HTML/ http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/ixin-1.8.tar.xz respectively. (Probably at some point, these will be directly reachable from the savannah project page, as well. Stay tuned but don't hold your breath...) -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical) (not (via 'mailing-list))) => nil
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