This is a hobby, and I a complete novice to this programming language,
did figure out a lot of stuff by looking at the open code and then by
reading the documents. This is what makes learning and discovery fun
for some of us trying to understand how things work.
While we are all entitled to our opinions, I didn't find your comment
helpful in any way except as a vent for your frustration.
This is a complex, beautiful program that goes very far beyond the
simplistic display I was able to write for myself many years ago.
Starting with WeeWx and then continuing to Belchertown I have been
grateful for these folks sharing their programming skills and the
unbelievable amount of time to not only make it work, but to write
documentation far more extensive, in my eyes, than most commercial
products. Not understanding Linux at all, I was able to get the first
pass of my initial installation up and running in 45 minutes or less.
This is my opinion, and statement of gratitude, for the authors' and
contributors' work. Of course you are entitled to yours. My concern is
such negative comments as yours without any constructive ideas or
volunteer to help write documentation that is up to your level of
expectation for a free product, fade away, which would leave a lot of
folks who are happy with this unique free program, without new versions
nor chance to get bugs, if any, corrected.
Dale
On 8/23/2021 5:36 AM, Julius Thijssen wrote:
Not to burst your weewx fanboy bubble here, but its config is a total
mess, to be fairly honest.
There's a weewx.conf that holds no "defaultskin =" entry anywhere. It
does have
[StdReport], which every new user assumes is short for [StandardReport],
except it isn't, because under it you also find
[[StandardReport]] (which defaults to "false", strangely) and also
[[Defaults]]
both of which also do not hold default skin settings.
Seriously, it took me hours to find out how to get a skin for the
standard html report to be used. I have never seen a config for a skin
in any package before in my 40 years in IT that was so unclear. And
no, it's not explained well in the docs.
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 10:53:42 PM UTC+2 vince wrote:
On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:52:08 AM UTC-7 eric.k...@gmail.com
wrote:
It is refreshing to have that level of detail to read through,
but it also takes some time to figure out what isn't there,
what is there, and what section it's in. Sometimes, it's
quicker to ask people.
With all due respect, the purpose of the docs is so you can do the
research and fend for yourself, rather than asking several
thousand of people questions that have answers that are already
documented. (and then the 'next' person does the same thing....and
the next....and the next....)
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