Re: Why Lisp is too hard for me to use

From: Iban (hatchond_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:21:40 +0200
To: Christian Hofer <ch_spam@gmx.de>

Christian Hofer wrote:
> Christian Lynbech wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Bruce Carleton <rbc@hakuhale.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert> Though I've used KDE and Gnome, I've actually gone backwards a
>> Robert> bit in my unix environment. I use mwm as my window manager.
>>
>> Let me do some advertising for eclipse, the Common Lisp based window
>> manager.
>>
>> I have used it for a long time and it has become rather stable and
>> very usable.
>
>
> When I first found Eclipse, I thought: Cool, a CL based window manager.
> Thus, I downloaded the documentation - 4 manuals. But they are nothing
> but templates... So I was convinced that this is a dead project.
>
> But now that you say it, normally a window manager should be quite self
> explaining. Maybe it's worth a try... On the other hand, I would really
> like to have the promised programmer's manual: Why should I need a CL
> window manager, if I cannot hack it?

First of all, I would like say that the Eclipse project is not dead. I'm
planning to propose a release (something like 0.9) in a near future.
But as you all said, the lack of documentation is a real problem. In the
past, Erik Enge was working on the manuals, but he switched from a linux
box to a Mac OS X machine and started to be busy with work and almost
stopped working with me. I must confess that I didn't continue his
documentation efforts and this is a mistake. But since I am the only one
who work on Eclipse it is hard for me to maintain and animate the whole
project alone, and for that reason I concentrate myself on some coding
effort rather than on writing the docs. But if somebody wants to help,
I'll be really happy to give anyone cvs write access and have a little
more traffic on the Eclipse's mailing lists.

If anyone is interested, please let me know.

Best regards,
Iban.

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