Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Hello

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Andreas Leitner wrote:
> 
> Btw, in eXML I now use XM_ as a prefix, but the bridge implementations
> use TOE_, EXPAT_, and EIFFEL_. I have not thought about renaming them
> yet, because I think of them as non user visible. What is your position
> on this Eric?

There are not visible by the users but there are visible
by the compiler. So I think that the class name prefix
rule should apply to all classes since its goal is to
avoid class name clashes.

> Btw, Eric, where does the name GOBO come from?

It was my nickname when I was at school more than 10 years
ago. At that time there was a French TV show for the kids
and the antihero was called Gobo.

> Another question, do you use any tools to write the docs?

My docs is currently written in HTML and I use Microsoft
Frontpage (yes I know, shame on me ;-)). It has been two
years now since I seriously considered using the XML
DocBook format to write my docs. But I never found time
to actually do it. Do you think DocBook would be a good
choice to write the docs? It has the advantage of being
XML, used in the Linux community for writing docs and
hence there exist several tools to convert it to many
other formats such as HTML, pdf, Postscript, etc. Do you
think it would be possible to write such a tool with
eXML to convert a DocBook XML doc into HTML for example?
That way using the DocBook standard we would be able
to generate our home-brewed HTML format to be used on
the Gobo project Web page.

PS: I created two mailing lists in the gobo-eiffel sourceforge
web page today, but the archive for the gobo-eiffel-develop
returns an error whereas the one for gobo-eiffel-commits
seems to work. Do you have any clue what's going wrong?

-- 
Eric Bezault
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http://www.gobosoft.com