[Cuis-dev] Dr Cuis

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/12/2025 6:08 PM, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some update at http://github.com/DrCuis, the known documentation is 
> spread in four categories
>
> -- 
> http://mamot.fr/@drgeo

Hi Hilaire,

I've had a quick look at the main 4 repositories:

https://github.com/DrCuis/Tutorials
https://github.com/DrCuis/How-to-guides
https://github.com/DrCuis/References-guides
https://github.com/DrCuis/Explanations

I think that Tutorials is OK. "Tutorials" is a meaningful subset of 
"Documentation". I would expect this repo to grow to reflect the needs 
and desires of new users an old users exploring new areas.

"How-to guides" also makes a lot of sense. However I would completely 
remove the "Virtual Machine" section. Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev already 
includes VMs for major platforms. 99% of Cuis users don't need to build 
a VM. Helping the other 1% is fine, but I think that is "Pro Level" 
documentation and it belongs somewhere else. Having that in the same 
place as building packages or working with layouts may make people think 
that hacking the VM is as important or frequent as doing packages and 
layouts. Even worse. It may lead people to believe that building their 
own package or using Layouts in their code is as difficult and "experts 
only" as hacking the VM. We provide well tested VMs for most platforms 
so people can forget about this as much as possible.

"Reference guides"  is OK. I think that other reference material could 
be added here. Perhaps the services offered by MorphicCanvas would 
belong here. Or some comprehensive discussion about Unicode. I'm sure 
there are many more that don't come to my mind right now.

"Explanations" looks like a place to put stuff that didn't belong in any 
of the previous categories. Currently it includes both introductory 
material, highly technical stuff, and lose bits of information. I think 
this could be improved. For instance, separating "Philosophical" and 
"Technical" material as done in Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Documentation, makes 
sense to me.

Additionally, the question remains whether this should duplicate the 
material in Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/Documentation, or which parts belong in 
DrCuis, and witch belong in Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev.

Thanks,

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