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"Running Medley Interlisp" => "Running Medley"

Open masinter opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

https://interlisp.org/software/using/running/

This is hard to get straight and we've waffled on this in the past, but I think the conclusion

Interlisp is the historical roots The Medley Interlisp Project" is the name of the project Medley is the current implementation

I was trying to separate out

  1. "Things you can do to set up to use Medley" vs
  2. "Things you need to know once you've done 1.

I called the first one "Running" and the second one "Using".

And there is "BUilding" which is what you might need to do if you want to run in a different circumstance.

Currently we have https://interlisp.org/software/using/ which just has two pointers in it. Documentation is at the top level. Documentation could go under Using, but Do you want a different word than "Running"? We need somewhere a guide to this.

Running  (Overview of 
      Releases
     Running Online
     Running on Mac
     Running on Windows
         RUnning on Windows with WSL   
     Running on Linux
Using
    Notes on Using online
    Documentation
    Reporting problems
Overview
    an index page which describes what is where
  

We need separate instructions for how to develop Medley and Maiko as an open source project. I think the consensus is that those instructions belong in the respective repositories, and the web site should direct people to the repository README.md for thoses instructions, with the README pointing back to the web site only fior the case there's a release.

https://interlisp.org/software/using/build/

masinter avatar Nov 09 '23 20:11 masinter

This is mainly done, except there doesn't seem to be a transition to the in-repo READMEs on how to build, do a loadup etc.

masinter avatar Dec 25 '23 01:12 masinter