Only as an idea.
I have now seen the
Article of FreePascal 2.0. It seems, that this would be a nice example, of how to could look an OSNews article for freeBASIC.
Greatings
theuserbl
Quote:FPC comes with 1800 pages of documentation
Until FB comes with proper documentation it is useless and counterproductive IMO to spread the voice about it. I just can't wait until the project has a valid documentation so we can finally face the slashdot effect...
I definately agree. A solid compiler will only be widespread if it's supporting documentation is rock solid and completely comprehensive, which at the moment, FB doesnt have.
One of the things that distressed me so far about FB is the lack of mainstream documentation, the stuff we have is good, but it's scatered all over the place, and unless your in the community then you have no clue where they are. So I'm going to do something about it.
1) By this evening I'll have set up a FB Documentation Wiki, anyone will be allowed to start or edit an article there.
2) I'm going to start some threads here asking for explanations of various commands (especially graphics, as they are my weak point) and include the data there garnered in the Wiki.
Hopefully, with the cooperation, and input, of everyone in the community we can generate some docs.
Quote:The article Wrote:FPC comes with 1800 pages of documentation
Until FB comes with proper documentation it is useless and counterproductive IMO to spread the voice about it. I just can't wait until the project has a valid documentation so we can finally face the slashdot effect...
The article also says:
Quote:After 5 years of development, Free Pascal 2.0 is released!
Maybe you have to be a bit patient ... ;-)
Use Mediawiki. I wanted to do a similar thing, but I just never had the chance because exams caught up with me. If you are NOT going to do this, then notify me, and I'll take the responsibility.
Wikicities uses Mediawiki as thier base (heck they _wrote_ media wiki
)
The FPC project started in 1993, if i remember, they got 4x more core developers, 50x more people in the community to help with docs, testing, etc.. i don't think it's possible to reach the point FPC is, nor in one decade. Ports to loads of different CPU's and platforms, a RAD tool (Lazarus), and so on - at least in number of libs supported FB is not too far from FPC, for everything else FB is years behind - not in code generation though, both gen pretty much the same crap.
I don't think we'd reach that level of documentation anytime soon personaly, however, if we don't start a documentation project that keeps growing, we won't _ever_ get there.
what we really need is more core developers the problem is there only a select few people with in the qb community who have knowleadge base to even help.