Alex Wrote: ----------- Developer is an effort to provide a nicer front end to the FTP site's content. The reason for this is that the FTP server is easier to maintain than the old /. style of the developer pages, and allows for more access methods. ---------- Developer also is mainly used on the adminstrators side for individuals who can not use ftp, people with older computer who ftp is slower, and for 'newbie' coders. It allows people who don't want to use ftp programs to download things. ------- As a second site note (completely unrelated), we've (I've) started to go through all of the documentation and convert it into LaTeX (since the old sgml stuff that we have/had is no longer supported, doh!). Thus far, I have completed six documents which are available in pdf format online for perusal and comment [see below for URL]. -------- This is an excellant idea. Lets break this down: ----------- - We're finally going to have all of the old text documentation in pretty-print formats (ps, html, text). ----------- YA! Prettier means more people willing to think that the CircleMUD code is a more professinal up to date code useing PDF. I still would think that a txt version should be availiable for a little longer ----------- - We're working towards getting rid of the OLD-DOCS directory as we update all of the documentation contained therein for the 3.x stuff. ----------- Updateing, this would go along with my thory behind the nice look of circleMUD in total. It would be more appealing as it would look more professinal ----------- - We're going to have all of the latest versions of the documentation online on the main CircleMUD webpages. ----------- I also think the website should be re-done makeing it more up to date with more of a comforting and formal look. I do not mean to insult the site in anyway, but it sort of looks like a geocities page. ---------- - We're going to finally finish coding.doc. (= ---------- NO! Don't make me have to stop telling builders how hard it is to code! ;) --------- If you see any typos, odd formatting bits, strange characters, or the like in any of these, please let _ME_ know as soon as possible. It will also help to know what OS you are using, and what you are viewing the PDF files with. ---------- The few files I looked at where really professinal. I like nice wrapped brown packages better then a odd shaped box. This will assist in the user friendliness of CircleMUD in a whole. This greatly increases the whole idea of CircleMUD codebase... look at them. Smaug was last updated like in 1996, GW's differnt sources where updated gosh who knows, rot/rom same as smaug. Many of the long standing muds out there are mostly CircleMUD, but people see Smaug/Rot/ Rom as a codebase fully set up with olc and clans. I have looked over it several times assisting others who had to code it, and its stability is NO where near Circle's. However people look at certain things like documents and what features it has because they don't know what stability is. So if documents show how easy CircleMUD is to code, how easy it is to place clans/olc in most muds out there will start becomeing CircleMUD. I know that this is lengthy but I have an express view upon this subject. I would also love seeing CircleMUD being THE mud codebase :) Zerin "The bard that could" P.S. If you have not yet, look at my new snippet: NewbieInfo and my older one RaceSpells. I'm going to prolly be updateing RaceSpells soon :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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