Re: [DotGNU]Call for volunteers: HTML pretty printer

[Gopal V]

If memory serves me right, j_post wrote:
> Apologies if Gopal or anyone else misinterpreted that statement, it was late 
> at night and I was more terse than usual. 

/me nods understandingly ... I have often sent terse mails in a caffeine 
induced insomnia...

Also this should teach me not to reply mails on exam day mornings (when I 
sleep at 3:00 AM, wake up at 7 , check mail at 7:30 and rush to college
before 8 ;-)

> I was *not* being sarcastic, I have no doubt at all that Gopal, or many 
> other people, could do a better job, but I think I did an adequate job, 
> and no one else jumped in. 

You're right ... I did fail to appreciate the fact that you DID IT ..
And that's what's important here.

mea culpa ...

> I fully expect that others will make improvements--that's the nature of 
> free software, it evolves.

"If not for that , why ?"

> I looked at cmdline.c, and it seemed overkill (to me) for what is needed in 
> this program (KISS).

Actually using that does simplify our work and well , it does have a lot of
stuff to support various platforms in things like wild card expansion etc..
Of course it's a lot simpler than using your code to parse options ... 

> See above comment about evolution ;-) Since I haven't spent time 
> investigating the other pnet tools (10 lbs in a 5 lb sack), I'm sure there 
> are others who could better integrate cssrc2html into the source tree.

Learn the stuff... :-) .. I think you might find it interesting , very
interesting indeed ..

I learned most of what I know now reading Rhys's code and imitating..
Not quite unlike monkey see monkey do , but like an infinite number of
monkeys with a single keyboard and lots of virtual terms ;-)

Generally when you read Rhys's code first,  you get the idea that
this is too huge to understand , but in time you figure out the few
design principles he uses and end up with the following quote:-

"Rhys does not play dice with the code" ... 

> > "Make it work and then make it work better".
> >
> Amen.

Striking a jarring note at the end , I do prefer my html well peppered
with "</font>" closing tags ... But I think you might have fixed that 
already ?.

Gopal
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