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Post by grävling on Feb 4, 2017 0:06:26 GMT -5
None of us want to spend our time in the fora explaining to newbies how to use a tool. Python Sphinx, www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ for instance, does tables very nicely, and lets you embed images and charts and graphs and is a great tool. But I have spent many years online in the #python chanel and as a docutils developer (Sphinx is made out of the docutils library) explaining how to use the thing, and I think I have done about as much of that as I want to this lifetime. I'd stick to Google docs and wikis for things that users need to edit, if I were you. If explaining how to use the tool cuts into your coding time, we all lose. |
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Post by John Robinson on Feb 4, 2017 0:10:58 GMT -5
I don't understand all the tech terms. But automation is a great idea there will be a huge amount of information coming over the next few years
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Could look for an off the shelf inexpensive product suite someone has already created to solve this exact type of problem? We can't be the only ones that need it?
There does need to be some kind of auto update. Perhaps a tool that does a complete overlay, or routinely deletes the old databases replacing it with the latest databases. Maybe set to trigger on the same day every week.
Perhaps it could be tied to trigger automatically when a new release comes out. Even if the release is basically a bug fix there is a good chance new information has been added between releases.
A programming language is a good option but bugs can creep in making it one more thing to fix, however you often gain more flexibility if you need to change format to include new types of data. Or if it was something like a google doc, the auto update archives the last update then deletes/replaces or creates a new google doc.
Out to pasture X Mainframe programmer complicating the process.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 4, 2017 0:23:39 GMT -5
We will run it as part of our internal data processor. The same thing that builds navigation mesh and populates data.db will output some pile of documentation.
So shipping new docs with every release shouldn't be an issue.
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Post by grävling on Feb 4, 2017 0:57:13 GMT -5
Well, if you like the idea of the sphinx tools, I would be happy to explain things to you and fallen, should you ever need help. Though the documentation is pretty excellent, imho. It's just fielding questions about Sphinx from the most computer-inexperienced that I would just as soon not have as a new full time job.  And I don't want you to end up with it, either. |
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Post by tenbsmith on Feb 5, 2017 11:11:38 GMT -5
John Robinson is there anyway to add starting cargo capacity to this table?
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Post by John Robinson on Feb 5, 2017 16:22:50 GMT -5
John Robinson is there anyway to add starting cargo capacity to this table? That's a great idea! I don't know how to do it yet. Cory Trese dumped some sample ship data we can all look at. I must have looked for an hour, and couldn't that thread again. |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 5, 2017 16:50:08 GMT -5
I will generate the next version of this table, please don't spend any time manually creating it.
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And I don't want you to end up with it, either.
