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robert-strandh / CLOS-MOP-HTML

HTML rendering of chapters 5 and 6 of "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol".
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My notes about your version for chapters 5 and 6. #3

Closed Hexstream closed 7 years ago

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/tmp/clos-mop-chapter-5-notes-about-robert-strandh-version.html has my notes about your version for chapter 5 in a fairly raw form, I hope this will be sufficiently palatable to you.

robert-strandh commented 7 years ago

I think I can work with these notes. Thanks!

Should I copy them, or do you think your URL will remain valid?

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

Great!

Policy-wise, stuff in "/tmp/" on my sites is generally not guaranteed to remain available, although empirically most of it does tend to remain available for an extended period. One of the biggest reasons for having a "/tmp/" folder is that I can just throw stuff in there with no guarantees, I can theoretically just delete anything anytime, or it might get lost because of whatever reason and it doesn't matter too much.

I really don't want to start giving guarantees about files in "/tmp/", but I can somewhat accommodate you in this particular case, if that's useful.

This particular "/tmp/" folder happens to be hosted on my S3 "bucket" for www.hexstreamsoft.com (which means that outside of extraordinary circumstances, it will stay there until I decide to delete it), and I also have a copy of the file in my "temporary" git repo for clos-mop.hexstreamsoft.com (which I have copies of on 2 separate machines), which I will completely wipe out when I'm ready to publish by creating a new fresh repo with one "Initial commit". (I really love burning my notes!)

So in this instance, you can rely on the file staying there until I'm ready to publish clos-mop.hexstreamsoft.com, which will likely still take a few weeks (I actually have fairly big plans beyond what you've already seen in the screenshots). I could arrange for hosting the file in a more long-term location, but I don't want to commit to holding on to this file indefinitely, and I also don't want to commit this file to a non-temporary git repo, where the file will live in the commit history forever, after all the point of finally reporting these issues to you is that I can stop caring about them. I could also host this in a "gist", but I'm not too familiar with gists, and I also don't want to maintain this gist in my account indefinitely anyway.

Anyway, sorry for the extensive background information, but basically I would much prefer if you either "processed" this file fast enough that its existence or non-existence quickly becomes irrelevant, or maybe you could import it into one of your own repos somewhere, or you could create a "gist" for it, or otherwise keep a copy somewhere on your own infrastructure. The sooner I can stop caring about this file, the better. :)

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

My notes about your version for chapter 6 are now also available. Enjoy!

https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/tmp/clos-mop-chapter-6-notes-about-robert-strandh-version.html

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

Oops, sorry, I just noticed that I accidentally wiped out https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/tmp/* a bit earlier than I had planned. (I had forgotten to update my aws s3 sync --delete command to --exclude 'tmp/*'.)

I guess this is a good opportunity to verify if you've already downloaded my notes for chapter 5 and 6. Given what I said above about the transience of /tmp/, I think you did, else I'll just upload the files again.

Incidentally, I noticed that I had accidentally wiped out /tmp/ while uploading a new screenshot of my Chapter 6, so here it is, just for fun (scroll down a bit for some fun "merging", "Generated", navigation, and "diff" stuff, you'll see what I mean): https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/tmp/wip/clos-mop-chapter-6_2017-07-01.png

(edit: Oops, one <pre> code sample is incorrectly indented, I'll fix it...)

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

Sorry about the huge PNG, that's not always fun to load and you have to scroll a lot to get at the good stuff. Highlights only: https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/tmp/wip/clos-mop-chapter-6_2017-07-01_highlights-only.png

Hexstream commented 7 years ago

Assuming that you made a backup of my notes a long time ago, now that I released my CLOS MOP version, this thread is now quite historical so I guess I'll close it.