[Babase] Chapter 1 documentation comments
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Feb 29 03:45:50 EST 2008
On 02/23/2008 04:24:27 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Comment: The 3rd paragraph of This Document says "Any deviation from
> the standards described in this document should be discussed with the
> project director and may God have mercy on your souls." I am happy
> with this except that it's not clear who of the three authors of this
> document you are referring to as the director. Do you want to just
> say "directors" and be equally ambiguous but more inclusive? Or do
> you want to specify a contact person for reporting deviations from
> the standards? I am OK with just adding an 's'.
's' added.
>
> Comment: the 2nd paragraph of "Conventions used..." says "For
> example, PCSColor. SOMETABLE.Somecolumn is shorthand for “the
> Somecolumn column of the SOMETABLE table”, ..." It's not clear what
> role the PCSColor is playing, and it confuses, can it be removed?
Clarified. Fiddled with sentence order.
> Comment: the section on System Design indicates that you still need
> to globally find and replace FoxPro with PostgreSQL: "The number of
> FoxPro** program development tools used in the construction of the
> software is kept to a minimum so that a new programmer need not spend
> a lot of time learning the FoxPro** development environment. At the
> present time, this means that the programs are limited to use of the
> FoxPro** language and the screen builder, no queries, reports, etc.,
> are used. All data are kept in FoxPro** databases."
This was leftover because this particular section was never redone
for Babase 2.0. I've now redone it.
>
> Comment: in "Other resources" I found a typo:tuitorials should be
> tutorials.
Spellchecked everything.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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