speedreader-developer Mailing List for Speed Reading Client

As part of my ongoing CVS education, I have tagged the current state of 
the CVS repository as 'prototype', this will allow us to branch, merge 
and rollback changes as development proceeds.

Cheers, Stephen.

I'll be interested to see what you think of this: 
http://speedreader.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?

Stephen.

Hi,

I have uploaded the new website. <http://speedreader.sourceforge.net/> 
It is built using apache forrest <http://forrest.apache.org/>. I will 
upload the source some time over the weekend.

Stephen.

The attached build.xml file can be run without having obtained the 
speedreader source.

It will connect to the sourceforge server anonymously and download 
speedreader. It will then run it.

Type ant -p for descriptions of the project targets.

Of course you will need apache ant installed to  operate it. If you like 
it, I will put it under source control or perhaps it could be the first 
link on the website for new users?

Stephen.

I was thinking that at some stage a log of the documentation contained 
in the dotproject archive, particularly the user stories could be 
converted to another format and stored under source control in something 
like:

/docs
    /design
       /stories
          story 1.sxw  , etc.

I would like to use openoffice. Do you use it? That way templates could 
be developed and changes tracked like everything else.

Stephen.

I have added the algorithm directory and template.xml file to CVS to 
alow us to exchange ideas on the format of this file.

Stephen.

Here we go.

The intial checkin seems to have worked, except the repository can't be 
seen using an anonymous cvs login. I have checked out the source under 
eclispse (3.0.1) and command line cvs (using developer login) and all 
seems well. I will do some reading over the next few weeks in my spare 
time to try and understand tagging and branching, etc, etc. Plus how to 
enable the world to see the work. Although I thought that was the default.

Do you use eclipse? I have been playing with the  Visual Editor ( 
http://www.eclipse.org/vep/), for a CTE project.

I will also begin to look at the best organisation for site docs and 
build systems. I am currently evaluating things like apache forrest, 
maven, cruisecontrol, etc.

I have also begun a migration back to Linux (Slackware) as my main 
environment. I won't need 2000 anymore. This means that all this 
beautiful *nix approach to development and less reliance on cygwin to 
kludge what I really want to do.

I think the ideal direction in terms of hardcore development is the 
building of test cases and thoughts about design surrounding the xml 
algorithm descriptors.

I will work on the build.xml file and a target that produces a *.jar 
file that a user can click on to just run it as a demonstration (using 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/one-jar/ ). This could just give us 
something to release to the world and also a source tar ball. Plus maybe 
a few docs to explain ourselves........

However, exams and study will dominate my life for the next 6 weeks. :)

Stephen.