Re: fyi, IXIN repo now public

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Adam Spiers <address@hidden>
() Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:21:25 +0000

   I can't really understand the point of this project just from
   the README.  In particular, it's not clear to me (as a
   Texinfo user and occasional author) what "fully semantic",
   "arbitrarily accessible", and "runtime configurable" mean,
   and hence what IXIN is intended to offer over Texinfo, since
   I would have thought that these characteristics could already
   be used to describe Texinfo.

   I suspect I could answer my own questions by looking at the
   project closer and/or reading past threads on the list, but
   if you want your project to attract wider interest, I would
   definitely recommend clarifying this in the README.

Thanks for the feedback!  (It's on the border of "constructive"
and "non-constructive", but hey i'm just happy to see it.  :-D)

I suppose some clarification on IXIN scope is indicated, to
underline that IXIN does not replace Texinfo, but instead is an
output format (one among many) that Texinfo can produce.  Like
the HTML output format, IXIN is not meant for human consumption
(although it is text, after all, and some humans like to explore
text w/ text editors, so really we shouldn't discriminate...),
and is normally "rendered" by another program.

Now, where to put this blurb, in README or The IXIN Chronicles,
or both, that's the next (minor) question to consider...

Anyway, to make it easier to ponder these things (and perhaps
tip future feedback into the unambiguously "constructive" bin),
here for the link-soup-swillers are the direct URLs for the IXIN
homepage, the HTML output version of The IXIN Chronicles, and
the latest release tarball:

 http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/
 http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/HTML/
 http://www.gnuvola.org/software/ixin/ixin-1.8.tar.xz

respectively.  (Probably at some point, these will be directly
reachable from the savannah project page, as well.  Stay tuned
but don't hold your breath...)

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