[Ecls-list] Work in progress...

[Julian Stecklina]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the new manual is slowly taking shape. I have mostly finished the
> "Standards" part, which document implementation specific limits and
> behavior.
> 
> Afterwards I will move on to the Extensions and afterwards to the
> Internals (right now they are copies of the old manual). The
> Extensions should contain things like ASDF, building standalone
> programs, etc. Many of these chapters were in the "Developers manual"
> and will have to be revised or even rewritten from scratch.

Thanks for doing this. I have skimmed over the already written parts of
the manual and it looks very well written, esp. the focus on the actual
implementation. I hope it helps getting more people to hack (and use) ECL.

The layout is nice, too. :)

> I am wondering whether the documentation is to be distributed with ECL
> in processed or unprocessed form. Probably the cleverest idea is to
> build a separate package for the manual, with HTML, PDF and other
> versions and direct people there.

I would agree, that a separate doc package is a practical solution.

Regards,
Julian

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