Re: Wiki Requests
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 10:56 pm
I don't know, I feel local doesn't fall under the scope of the love wiki.
Yes, the main two points of the wiki are to doc the Love API and to doc things that use Love. But I feel that by not at least mentioning common things that get used in Love (such as local), we effectively erect an entry barrier: you must be this educated to ride. The strength of Love is that it's accessible: shouldn't we play to that strength, by trying to accumulate knowledge as it relates to Love in a logical place?TechnoCat wrote:I don't know, I feel local doesn't fall under the scope of the love wiki.
I personally think standard Lua documentations should be kept separate from the LÖVE wiki.tentus wrote: I added a require entry but I don't even know where to begin with explaining how it works. I feel like we should have something short up there to introduce people to the idea of require, but explaining how it does paths usually turns into a verbose mess pretty quickly. Ideas?
No, it doesn't have to do with server space I'm guessing. It has to do with: why should we maintain separate documentation to Lua? Should we have to update the Lua documentation part of our wiki when Lua 5.2 comes out and is included? I mean yeah, LOVE is a good way to learn Lua, but LOVE isn't about teaching Lua. Doesn't however mean we will jump on helping people with learning Lua on an individual basis (which often times points them to PiL anyways).tentus wrote:Are we hurting for server space? How about a compromise: a consolidated page that lists and links to Lua components that come up a lot in Love, and notes anything special that Lovers ought to know. For example, I feel like the wiki should mention that require in Love 0.8.0 behaves differently from previous versions of Love.
That is definitely something special to LOVE though. Changing the behavior of Lua ('require' in this case) in LOVE does warrant a wiki page or notice. 'local' is the same in LOVE as it is in Lua.tentus wrote:Edit: the very next post I read (http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... 736#p34733) pretty much perfectly illustrates my point.
Agreed.TechnoCat wrote:No, it doesn't have to do with server space I'm guessing. It has to do with: why should we maintain separate documentation to Lua? Should we have to update the Lua documentation part of our wiki when Lua 5.2 comes out and is included? I mean yeah, LOVE is a good way to learn Lua, but LOVE isn't about teaching Lua. Doesn't however mean we will jump on helping people with learning Lua on an individual basis (which often times points them to PiL anyways).