[OpenLayers-Dev] Additional Documentation

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Thu Nov 13 09:36:50 EST 2008


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>  
>  1. Wikis do not easily correlate to SVN history: Things like tagging,
>     branching, etc. are not a built in part of the way that wikis work,
>     which (for documentation which changes with releases) is at best
>     unfortunate, but at worst can be downright useless. The spherical
>     mercator doc, for example, will probably be very different for the
>     3.x series compared 2.x, and SVN gives us an easy way to manage 
>     docs along with code as far as per-version docs go.
>  

<OT>
/me cheers! Finally someone who understands and sees the need for 
branching and maintaining multiple versions of docs to follow software 
releases!
</OT>

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Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/



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