Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:11:36AM -0500, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:55 AM, John Gabriele wrote:
> 
> > My point was that, if you tell prospective egg contributors that they
> > can optionally supply their own html docs, they can use whatever tools
> > they want to generate that html (even write it by-hand, if they like).
> > [...] you could offer them the option of just providing their
> > own raw html and you could install it and host it for them at
> > something like http://eggdocs.call-cc.org/package-name.
> 
> Sounds like a huge *dis*advantage to me.

+1

This would be identical to reverting to the situation of 4 years ago
where we had a huge mess of completely differently-formatted and
not properly maintained HTML egg documentation.

*not* an improvement!

Cheers,
Peter
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