On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Glenn Saunders wrote:
> >>
> I will probably have time to update the stelladoc some more after I
> finish Poker Solitaire, which will be done in a week or 2 at the rate
> I've been going. Meanwhile, if someone else would like to do some work
> on stelladoc v2, please go ahead & do it, you don't need my permission
> or anything.
> <<
>
> If you are the only one with FTP access to it, then it's hard for us to
> update it. We could use a URL to a zip of all the files, for instance,
> rather than doing save-as on them one by one and re-assembling them on our
> local machines.
>
I don't even have ftp access. Andrew said to email him the updated version
and he'd manually copy it over.
> Not only that, but it may be a good idea for StellaDoc to be hosted
> somewhere that has an application server/DB back end.
>
Ugh. My take on this is that the document proper should be hostable
anywhere that has a web server.. specific parts like your TIA chart
that require database/whatever backend support should be considered
a separate document, to be linked to by the static HTML stelladoc..
> I have migrated my TIA colors and sound tables to GameDevelopers.net, so at
> least I'm in a good position to generate new views or web-based utilities
> (think search engines and sortable register lists) around the 2600 hardware.
>
Once again we'd run into the problem that only one person has the
ability to make updates... perhaps we really should make this a Source
Forge project? sourceforge.net accounts are free, and multiple developers
can have access to the web space and CVS tree... and CVS has a lot of
advantages over having a human being try to merge different versions
updated by different people...
> We may want to think some more about what we want this to one day become,
> and scale accordingly.
I wish my employer still let me keep a server in the colo rack. I used to
have the ability to host anything you could host on a sparc 10...
Even using a sourceforge project to manage this, isn't really ideal.. VA
Linux (owner/operators of sourceforge.net) could go out of business or
decide to cut back on the free stuff to tighten up their budget. Ideally,
we need a server sitting somewhere that belongs to one of the regular
list members... Or at least access to a box running CVS and a web server,
at minimum. A database would be nice, so would the ability to run our
own perl/php/coldfusion/whatever scripts...
B.
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