[ic] Major changes to DEVEL CVS branch

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Chris Tooley (christ@ntrc.net):
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 20:06, Mike Heins wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > This is to advise everyone that the nightly builds will stop temporarily.
> > There have been major changes to the DEVEL branch CVS prior to the
> > beta for Interchange 5.0.
> > 
> > The fine folks at Zeald have provided professional-quality HTML for
> > the Interchange UI, and I have incorporated it in an update that should
> > greatly improve the UI, and make it more intuitive.
> > 
> > In addition, the UI becomes more easily configurable than ever.
> > 
> > Most custom UI pages should work unchanged, but there may be cases
> > where they don't; also, most menus should work fine but again there
> > will be cases where they won't. Because of this, I am suspending 
> > the nightly build until some semblance of stability returns.
> > 
> > In a few days, Demo space 1 should reflect the new UI and the
> > nightly builds will return.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Mike
> 
> At one point I saw some talk of a manual for the standard Foundation
> store possibly being produced.

There actually is such a manual, icfoundation, though as usual I am sure
it is not nearly what people seem to want. It is all anyone seems to be
moved to work to produce; after the treatment I have received for my docs
efforts I can't seem to get motivated to do more, and neither can anyone
else.

    http://www.icdevgroup.org/the_authors_life.txt

> As it appears that 5.0 will be not only
> a major backend change and but also a major shift in UI.  Has this been
> looked into recently?

The thing I am really interested in is some better online help. There is
now a built-in online help editor, but I doubt anyone except a couple of
people (one of whom is me) will actually take the time to contribute
back changes if past behavior is any indication.

I would love to be wrong on these assumptions... 8-)

> Also, is there anyone out there willing to
> generalize their store to give some more options to the starting base?
> 

I am afraid I have given my all here. While I have many other enhancements,
the documentation program is a show-stopper and I won't put in any more
features that cannot be supported.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.513.523.7621      <mike@perusion.com>

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