Thus spake "bsmith":
As much as it pains me to say this, I'm willing to do whatever is required to
move the dev discussion to the forum. If I have to do it I have to do it bu
t I know it's going to be a double edged sword.
What I really want to do is start working on the code myself;
I think it would involve a few changes in m2f_mailinglist.php.
It might be worth asking on the Mail2Forum forum whether 2.0 is going to
have this feature, and what the state of it is right now. It could be that
we could use the development version and it would already do what we want.
But I'm not pr
epared to do so until we have the dev discussion in forum format.
Why not?
I want to see a sticky thead at the top which outlines the exact process deve
lopers need to follow to checkout and build Vassal. I bet right now there is
no quick and easy way to get this information that does not involve doing fu
nky searches through mailing lists.
It's in the wiki right now. You wouldn't find it on any of the mailing
lists. (And that's about the build setup for Eclipse. If you don't want
to use Eclipse, then you won't find anything at all except the build
scripts in my dev branches.)
Discussing anything in the mailing list is, as far as I'm concerned, writing
e-mail for e-mail's sake, that stuff is going to get lost in a couple of week
s and the only refence we will have is "if I remember correctly"; So what's t
he point?
Two points:
1. I keep all of my mail. *ALL* of it. Since 1998 or so. So I can grep for
what I'm looking for. Things on the devel list are not lost, from my point
of view. I realize that most people do not do this. Searching on the forum
sucks for me because I can't use regular expressions to do it, while I
can with grep.
2. Did you know that there's an archive of the list at Sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... gine-devel
I'd concur with you immediately on any negative thing you want to say about
their archive setup. (Similarly, for Yahoo Groups.) I don't use it because
I'm storing my own archive. It would be easy for me to add the devel list
as one of the lists I archive at nomic.net:
http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/
The advantage here is that they're picked up by Google, whereas
Sourceforge's list archvies seem not to be. That would go quite some
way toward making the information more visible.
--
J.
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