Re: [Oorexx-devel] State of the doc updates.

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

"early availability" maybe?  I think I'd vote for alpha over pre-beta
because it does have a defined meaning.

Rick

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Mark Miesfeld <mie...@gm...> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Okay, good review of where you are at.  I was going to post a similar
> thing today.  (Hopefully.)
>
> I'm finishing up the WindowsEventLog doc, where I had added quite a
> bit. I should finish today.  When I do, I will have documented all the
> changes I've done and done all the doc review I had planned to do.
> So, by the end of today, maybe tomorrow, we should have all the
> changes to main/trunk documented.
>
>> Given the amount of doc work that seems to be required yet, I think we
>> really should focus some attention on getting a "kick-the-tires" alpha
>> download available.  I've got a 64-bit Linux version available, but
>> I'm not sure how to build the RPM (or even if it will build on this
>> platform).
>
> I agree. I know how to set the stuff up on SourceForge so I'll get
> that started this evening.  I think David's out of touch until
> tomorrow.  Maybe he can do the official notice.
>
> I don't think we need to do a formal branch with this kick-the-tires
> download.  In fact, I thought we could just add builds to it as we get
> them done.
>
> The 32-bit / 64-bit Windows builds I can get on SourceForge today.  I
> get tomorrow off, and I was hoping to get a 64-bit Linux installed.
> If so I can get a 64-bit RPM on SourceForge by the end of the day on
> Monday.
>
> That leaves the release name for SourceForge.  Is 4.0.0-pre-beta or
> 4.0.0-alpha good enough?  If so which one do we prefer.  I actually
> like pre-beta best. However, alpha is a somewhat standard name.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Rick McGuire <obj...@gm...> wrote:
>> Ok, I've finished a top-to-bottom review of the reference, and cleaned
>> up quite a bit.  I think we have all of the new features documented
>> finally, so that part is done.  The one section I skipped was the
>> Rexxutil functions, so if anybody wants to review that, it would be
>> great.  I think at a minimum, someone needs to go through and make
>> sure we are documenting the functions that are there (and only the
>> functions that are there!).
>>
>> I'm now working on the rexxpg, doing a similar top-to-bottom review.
>> I'm finding it needs a lot of updates.  For one thing, it still refers
>> to "Object Rexx" everywhere.  It's also assumes Windows in many, many
>> places, so I'm going to try to make it more platform agnostic.  I'm
>> also finding it talks about things that are just flat-out wrong, which
>> is a little disturbing.  Anyway, this review is long overdue, so that
>> will be keeping me busy for the next week.  I also have a couple of
>> sections of the API ref I need to complete, but haven't decided how I
>> want to write them yet.
>>
>> Given the amount of doc work that seems to be required yet, I think we
>> really should focus some attention on getting a "kick-the-tires" alpha
>> download available.  I've got a 64-bit Linux version available, but
>> I'm not sure how to build the RPM (or even if it will build on this
>> platform).
>>
>> Rick
>>
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