On 10/9/05, Tony Lambregts tony.lambregts@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that it should be easy to update WineHQ. If it's hard at the moment, that needs to be fixed.
Submitting patches is not something that needs to be fixed, and I know of no bettter way of updateing the websites! It is not hard but it does require a skill set and resourses to be set up that not everyone has.
The difficulty I'm seeing is that it takes too long to review patches.
I simply can't develop on the Wiki; it's too slow and painful for me compared to a normal text editor.
Why is it that slow? Is it that resource hungry or is it your connection speed? I tried it on my old box (the one that took 8 hours to compile wine) and it seemed fine. So it must be your connection speed (I have ADSL).
My connection is very fast. One problem is that I'm used to quick iterations, and the time to save on the wiki is lots longer than the time it takes to save in vi.
I've often wished for a hybrid wiki that let users edit it using traditional tools (e.g. svn and vi) in addition to the live web update. Haven't had time to look into it, though. I actually did a wiki-like system back in 1994 that had some of those features - guess I should have kept at it! - Dan