From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30513 invoked by alias); 28 May 2004 06:45:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30506 invoked from network); 28 May 2004 06:45:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.panix.com) (166.84.1.72) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 May 2004 06:45:21 -0000 Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD66A48711; Fri, 28 May 2004 02:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kingdon@localhost) by panix5.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id i4S6jKr07313; Fri, 28 May 2004 02:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 06:45:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200405280645.i4S6jKr07313@panix5.panix.com> From: Jim Kingdon To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <1085709882.1485.553.camel@localhost.localdomain> (message from Eric McDonald on Thu, 27 May 2004 20:04:42 -0600) Subject: Re: does the tutorial lie? References: <1085709882.1485.553.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00431.txt.bz2 > I think a valid question is: should they be marked as such on the Xconq > Web site? These manuals also do contain up-to-date information, so maybe > they should simply have a caveat lector note next to their links. I suppose some kind of disclaimer would be OK, although of course it might just lead to general doubt and uncertainty rather than critical reading. I'd like to see us do at least *something* about inaccuracies as we notice them. Towards that end, I checked in a change to the example in the tutorial which at least notes the ZOC issue, even though I didn't take the time to really try out the example and figure out how much it matches current reality. (Not to mention think about the teaching order as a tutorial and whether there is a better way to demonstrate unit-size-in-terrain without getting bogged down in ZOC which is a more advanced feature, as the default ZOC behavior is adequate for many games. But I'm saying that a note is a good first step which we can do even before that kind of full update happens).