RE: [gtk-list] Re: Tutorial code converted to Perl

[Tony Gale <gale daedalus dera gov uk>]

On 16-Apr-98 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> TG> It makes maintenance harder
> 
> No worse than divergent versions, surely?  When new sections are
> added,
> just ignore the other languages.  They'll be filled in in short
> order, I'm
> sure.

This is still divergent versions, just in one file. And it makes my
job harder to have everything in one file - bit of a nightmare trying
to find a particular section.

> 
> TG> I don't think it is possible to generate multiple versions from
> the
> TG> same source.
> 
> Preprocessor?  Given all of the SGML advocacy I've seen in recent
> months,
> I'd be very disappointed if this was difficult to do.

The tutorial currently uses the linuxdoc DTD which doesn't have
support for multiple verions (or, in fact, support for much at all).


> Is it possible to have footnote links that point to different
> pages?  You
> could place next to each code snippet a link pointing to a page
> with the
> same code in various languages.  Yes, this does mean that I'm
> willing to
> assist, although I can't say that I know anything about SGML.  If
> someone
> told me how to accomplish what I was looking to do, I'd be happy to
> set
> about doing it.

Why not just supply all of the example code in a perl version? If the
text isn't going to be different, then there isn't much point in
having a complete new version, and as it isn't possible (easily) to
have multiple code versions in the Tutorial, this would seem
sensible.

Then people wanting to use the Perl bindings can read the current
tutorial, but use the Perl example code. Of course, the function
declarations that are in the tutorial will be for C, but you could
write a primer.

Tony
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