| Re: Webmaker for IDL available [message #19208 is a reply to message #19204] |
Fri, 03 March 2000 00:00   |
Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997
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Mirko Vukovic wrote:
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> Impressive.
thanks !
>
> I am not placing an order, but have a suggestion. And I hate making
> what may sound as a negative comment to the author after all the hard
> work, because I am not trying to be negative.
>
> So here is the comment.
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> Webmaker may be too generic a name. How about LibraryDocHTMLBuilder
> or something like it?
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> Webmaker name should be reserved for a more general purpose routine that
> accepts higher level constructs (title, index, sectiontitle, etc), and
> converts them to HTML.
Well, you never know how these programs evolve... If I receive 1000+
orders, this might well be the future of webmaker. And in this case
I already reserved the name ;-)
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> Finally, did you consider actually using Perl for this kind of a job
> (I've never done anything in Perl). I can see one reason why not
> to do it in Perl, and that is if you know IDL and don't know Perl (Valid
> in my opinion).
I did consider this, but very briefly. You state the most important
argument (I just don't know enough perl for this), but I had other
reasons, too (they might be fake as perlians could point
out): although this is not in the current version, there are
provisions to check module dependencies which requires some knowledge
of internal IDL procedures and functions, and I thought the best
way to get hold of these is to use IDL itself.
But again: if I gain 1000+ customers, I may hire someone who will
do it much nicer in perl...
Cheers,
Martin
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