[Mapserver-users] Perl/Python/Ruby mapscript development documentation

[Lowell Filak]

Yes & no - I checked mapscript.html.
What am I missing - are they not intended to be one in the same? If not
I'll just automate grabbing it.
Logging into cvs is not something I look forward to doing manually daily.
Yes - allowing for the fact that it is not finished.

Lowell

The following message was sent by Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> on
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:54:44 -0700.

> Is that a statement of complete approval?  Did you check the underlying
> mapscript.txt file?  Does it look like something you'd use instead of
> referring to the PHP readme?
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Feb 25, 2004, at 6:38 AM, Lowell Filak wrote:
> 
> > Thank you to all the developers.
> >
> > Lowell
> >
> > The following message was sent by Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> on
> > Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:19:40 -0700.
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Following the example of the PHP-mapscript developers, we are now
> >> maintaining
> >> documentation for the development mapscript in a text file.  In CVS in
> >> can be
> >> found at mapscript/doc/mapscript.txt.  Language-specific appendices
> >> will be
> >> at mapscript/doc/python.txt etc.  This new documentation fills the 
> >> same
> >> role as
> >> the README file under mapscript/php3.  Is a work in progress, but I'm
> >> chipping
> >> away at it every day and we'll be caught up with the current state of
> >> the
> >> development code soon.
> >>
> >> We are trying out restructured text as a file format.  It provides 
> >> just
> >> enough
> >> structure that it can be parsed and rendered into XML or HTML.  During
> >> the
> >> evaluation of mapscript.txt I will be regularly generating HTML from
> >> the text source
> >> and putting it up at
> >>
> >> http://users.frii.com/sgillies/examples/mapscript.html
> >>
> >> Links to the original text source and documentation about reST and
> >> links to
> >> download of reST tools are at the bottom of the page.  If users
> >> appreciate this
> >> development documentation, I'll work the generation of HTML docs into
> >> the mapserver
> >> nightly build.
> >>
> >> If you have considerations that you'd like to add to Bugzilla 
> >> regarding
> >> the
> >> development docs, join the discussion here
> >>
> >> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=576
> >>
> >> or discuss here on the list and I'll try to summarize on Bugzilla.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Sean
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sean Gillies
> >> sgillies at frii dot com
> >> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
> >>
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