Hey Bob, I didn't insult Joe's Mom, but I don't agree that code is documentation or vice versa. However, when I see either of you on continuum, I plan to insult your mother. -bd > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Tanner" <tanner at real-time.com> > To: "Netrek Development Mailing List" <netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> > Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] Netrek config utility source code > Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 16:06:35 -0500 > > > On Monday 01 May 2006 15:54, . . wrote: > > Can you please explain what its purpose is, what this does in some more > > detail, why anyone would want to use it, and how it works? Documentation > > tends to be notoriously bad in Netrek -- almost like a sore thumb or a poke > > in the eye with a sharp stick. > > I don't mean this to be flame-bait, but it will sound that way.... > > The documentation is the code. With that said, I agree the documentation is > poor for Netrek, but if I had to pick, I'd rather have people writing code, > then writing documentation. > > A smaller FOSS projects like netrek do not (usually) get the luxury of having > both. > > My recommendation, see if you can get the author in irc and talk with him and > write the documentation yourself. Why? Most devs, like myself, would write > techno-babble documention which the end user wouldn't find all the useful > anyways. :-) > > -- > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288 > << 1.2.dat >> > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/listinfo/netrek-dev > -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/