Hi, > i'm new to harbour, but even though the project is a great help for me > i find the web presence and especially the documentation not very > complete. my usual way of helping myself is to grep .lib files, the > harbour source code and googling. but this is not a good solution for > the uninitiated. > > what i would like to see is a wiki where everyone can enter all > harbour/clipper/xbase info, functions, commands, compatibility with > different versions, etc. > > i don't know of any such site on the net. if we would launch such a > thing, maybe in time we could make it the #1 source of xbase infos > with a strong link to and presence of harbour. that should increase > knowledge and popularity for harbour. > > i think it's important that it is a wiki, since the beauty of a wiki > is that everyone can enter information very easily. it takes more > interest to checkout the svn repos, understand the doc format/whatever > and finally write some of it yourself. that might be a too much of an > obstacle for many contributors. plus, we could draw contributors from > other xbase lingos (xharbour, clipper 5.x, flagship) as well even > though they are not interested in harbour at all. > > ...or is that a typical idea of a newcomer to the project? :)
We have/had several wikis since years. Just nobody cares to update them. For a start we have a quite shameful IMO wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_(software) Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
