some feedback from a first-time visitor to the project

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Brian, are you interested in random feedback about the project, from a 
first-time visitor. I heard your interview on the podcast and was 
motivated to take a look. :-)

First, I was surprised to find that visiting the wiki link above shows the 
wiki pages the order: customizing, installation, howto, requirements, and 
about. That should be the reverse, right? It could put off first-time 
visitors who don't recognize the problem. Is it anything you can control? 

Of course, some screen shots would be nice to help motivate first-timers 
to better appreciate both the output and the process of using the tool, 
but I know that docs are always the re-headed stepchild of O/S projects. :-
) I just propose this if you're interested in driving more developers to 
get interested, which would lead both to more widespread use and finding 
more folks to get involved. Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem, I 
realize. :-)

Here's a minor point: in the download you offer, you propose people unzip 
it into a cfcgenerator directory. For some users, they would benefit from 
your having that root directory already specified in the zip file, so they 
need only unzip it to their site root (without having to create a 
directory). It's a little thing, and maybe you want to leave them free to 
choose another name for the directory. I see you address that they can put 
it other than the root and use a mapping. Would things fail to work for 
any reason if the name was not cfcgenerator? If so, then that's another 
reason to fix the name within the zip. Just I thought I'd bring it up for 
consideration.

Finally, you may ask, "so, what did you think of it". Sadly, I couldn't 
get it working because I seem to have some problem with my 7.02 
installation's support of Flex 2 at the moment. That was a surprise, but I 
can't go further until I resolve that. In any case, I wish you continued 
success on the project. It sounds compelling, and we all appreciate all 
your work in the community.

/charlie

PS Sorry if I should break these into smaller, individualy items for 
response in the issue tracker. I didn't know if you'd want to consider 
them the same sort of issues as other "real" ones related to the code 
itself.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by careh...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2007 at 5:13

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Charlie, thanks for the feedback. Regarding your Flex issue...could it be that 
you
have not changed the config to obey coldFusion mappings? There should be a line 
in
the docs covering that as that has usually been the communication issue people 
have
encountered.

I will change the download as you have specified in the next build as this is a 
good
point.

- Brian

Original comment by brian.ri...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2007 at 2:56

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
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Original comment by brian.ri...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2008 at 1:19

• Changed state: Fixed