[Catalyst] improving usability / doc
Daniel McBrearty
danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 11:27:38 GMT 2007
the thing that I have found confusing in the past is the fact that if
you go here:
http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7008/
which appears to be the "root node" of things, then scroll down for
documentation, you find this:
http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7008/lib/Catalyst/Manual.pod
which is fine, but then there is also this:
http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Catalyst-Manual-5.700704/
(which I generally use, as it seems more complete ... )
It's confusing. Which is the "canonical" manual? Why is there more
than one (rhetorical, I know the reasons is mostly historical ...)
TIMTOWTDI is a great concept, but it can be taken too far ...
If you do one thing only, (sorry, I can't include myself in this at
present ... hopefully one day ..) clarify this. Preferably my merging
these two docs into one.
A second very simple improvement would be a clearly labelled link
("The Manual") straight to Jon's manual from the front page of
http://www.catalystframework.org/ ? The apples are lovely and all, but
compare with http://subversion.tigris.org/ ... as a by no means ideal,
but better, example ... )
so yes, the nav does suck a bit IMO. The documentation itself is
pretty good - when you find it, and work out which bit to use.
D
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