[Oberon] Project Oberon Hardware

[peter at easthope.ca]

From:	greim <greim at schleibinger.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 13:32:34 +0200
> One central Oberon web-site / Wiki / forum / repository would be 
> really, really  helpful. Sourceforge or GitHub?

I lack the technical authority which most of you have.  
Nevertheless, a few observations, comments and questions. 

Yes, 
https://svn.inf.ethz.ch/svn/lecturers/a2/ 
https://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/svn/ocp/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/
and 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nativeoberon/files/
all work as intended.  Bravo and thanks!

As Wirth and others stress repeatedly, the ultimate documentation 
is the source itself.  Also, the success of Wikipedia and Wikibooks 
is undeniable.   A Talk page allows resolution of many of the 
divergences.  Vandalism is restrained by the history and the editing 
controls.  The Web interface is no barrier to casual reading.

Hence my question.  Can an Oberon wiki book exist?  The answer must 
depend on these sub-questions at least. 
  Benefits? 
  Technically feasible?
  Will authors permit it?  

An obvious benefit is potential for incorporation of modules from NO.  
Eventually compile Oberon 2013 for i386 and other hardware.

MediaWiki is open source.  Therefore, at a technical level, an Oberon book 
might exist at the ETH or at another server as well as at wikibooks.org.  
Technically feasible?  Yes in my view.

What about permissions?

Regards,              ... Peter E.


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