RISC OS Open: Forum: Cortex-A8 Software Compatability List

Dec 6, 2009 7:47pm

Just to give you a heads up that I’ve now changed the compatibility list so its sorted in alphabetical order, to make it easier to see at a glance what software works and what does not.

I presume you’re okay with that – It shouldn’t be too much of an overhead to keep it that way. And if it doesn’t it only takes me a minute in Excel to sort it.

Dec 6, 2009 8:23pm

Rob Heaton (274) 515 posts

Thanks Alan, I was just debating sorting that into alphabetical order too!

Dec 6, 2009 9:20pm

Peter Naulls (143) 147 posts

Well, I can’t see the list right now, but in MediaWiki (e.g. riscos.info, but not riscosopen.org) it’s easy to create column-sortable tables.

Anyway, I’m always dubious of such lists – after all, there are many, many pieces of software which probably work just fine. Best just to list those with issues, which give a focus for things to be fixed.

Dec 6, 2009 10:24pm

Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts

in MediaWiki (e.g. riscos.info, but not riscosopen.org) it’s easy to create column-sortable tables.

Hopefully this is something that the new wiki (that Andrew H. is working on) will be able to provide, when its implemented. Hopefully the new wiki will provide more flexibility. Certainly would be useful.

In the meantime, I’ve just uploaded a list of Service Calls. but I don’t know it developers would prefer it sorted by name or number. Any preference?

Dec 7, 2009 11:47am

Andrew Hodgkinson (6) 465 posts

Don’t think Instiki provides any such thing; all content is ‘dumb’, that is, consists of plain markup.

We are restricted to using Ruby On Rails applications so that everything integrates with shared style templates and the Hub single sign-on mechanism. Sadly Rails seems to lack a decent Wiki (it’s not too good for forum software either). Wagn is interesting but too complex and unstable IMHO. Informl is a fusion of Wiki and forms, which sounds closer to the requirements here, but development stopped in about 2007.

http://www.wagn.org/ http://informl.folklogic.net/

Dec 7, 2009 1:27pm

Jeffrey Lee (213) 6048 posts

In the meantime, I’ve just uploaded a list of Service Calls. but I don’t know it developers would prefer it sorted by name or number. Any preference?

I’d say sorting it by number is best. People can easily use the find function in their browser to find the right entry on the page if they know the (partial) name but not the number. For the HAL docs I do have the entry points listed by both function and number, but they do fit into logical groups a lot easier than the service calls.

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Dec 6, 2009 7:47pm Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts	Just to give you a heads up that I’ve now changed the compatibility list so its sorted in alphabetical order, to make it easier to see at a glance what software works and what does not. I presume you’re okay with that – It shouldn’t be too much of an overhead to keep it that way. And if it doesn’t it only takes me a minute in Excel to sort it.

Dec 6, 2009 8:23pm Rob Heaton (274) 515 posts	Thanks Alan, I was just debating sorting that into alphabetical order too!

Dec 6, 2009 9:20pm Peter Naulls (143) 147 posts	Well, I can’t see the list right now, but in MediaWiki (e.g. riscos.info, but not riscosopen.org) it’s easy to create column-sortable tables. Anyway, I’m always dubious of such lists – after all, there are many, many pieces of software which probably work just fine. Best just to list those with issues, which give a focus for things to be fixed.

Dec 6, 2009 10:24pm Alan Robertson (52) 420 posts	in MediaWiki (e.g. riscos.info, but not riscosopen.org) it’s easy to create column-sortable tables. Hopefully this is something that the new wiki (that Andrew H. is working on) will be able to provide, when its implemented. Hopefully the new wiki will provide more flexibility. Certainly would be useful. In the meantime, I’ve just uploaded a list of Service Calls. but I don’t know it developers would prefer it sorted by name or number. Any preference?

Dec 7, 2009 11:47am Andrew Hodgkinson (6) 465 posts	Don’t think Instiki provides any such thing; all content is ‘dumb’, that is, consists of plain markup. We are restricted to using Ruby On Rails applications so that everything integrates with shared style templates and the Hub single sign-on mechanism. Sadly Rails seems to lack a decent Wiki (it’s not too good for forum software either). Wagn is interesting but too complex and unstable IMHO. Informl is a fusion of Wiki and forms, which sounds closer to the requirements here, but development stopped in about 2007. http://www.wagn.org/ http://informl.folklogic.net/

Dec 7, 2009 1:27pm Jeffrey Lee (213) 6048 posts	In the meantime, I’ve just uploaded a list of Service Calls. but I don’t know it developers would prefer it sorted by name or number. Any preference? I’d say sorting it by number is best. People can easily use the find function in their browser to find the right entry on the page if they know the (partial) name but not the number. For the HAL docs I do have the entry points listed by both function and number, but they do fit into logical groups a lot easier than the service calls.