[Oberon] Re (2): revisions in sources.

[peter at easthope.ca]

From:	Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com>, Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:01:27 +0930
> If I am interested in the detail of the code changes I keep 
> snapshots of the source folder(s) and use a difference listing 
> / merge tool like BeyondCompare (a Windows application by 
> Scooter Software) to identify /synchronise the code changes. 

A personal archive.  You don't sell Astobe with a list of 
revisions for the buyer to make before using.  Correct?

>From chris at cfbsoftware.com  Thu May  7 00:19:29 2015
> That is the intention of the *existing* Oberon Community Platform
> from ETH.  It has a wiki, forum etc.
> http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/

Yes, It's admirable.  I've contributed to it. 
Two significant capabilities are not in the OCP and are 
available with MediaWiki.  Page specific history with 
convenient difference display.  Page specific discussion.

>From joerg.straube at iaeth.ch  Wed Apr 20 18:50:55 2016
> I would appreciate a repository of ProjectOberon, where the 
> community can contribute instead of having independent forks.

When two articles in Wikipedia address the same topic 
they are merged.  Sooner or later.  Very few competing 
articles on one topic survive more than a few years 
before merger.  Eventally sanity prevails over ego. 

> In my point of view, WikiBook doesn't seem to be the best choice for this task.

Acknowleged.  What is better or best?  
  
Bernhard mentioned difficulty in configuring Sourceforge 
to archive Oberon source Texts while allowing convenient 
reading by a human.

Oberon sources appear almost as plain texts.  In a few 
places recent revisions are colored. The visual appearance 
is easily achieved with HTML.  Therefore a question. 
Would a MediaWiki publication of sources as ASCII or HTML, 
having the same visual appearance as in Oberon, violate the 
ETH license?  I can't discern the answer.

Currently these are the two most relevant forms.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Computing
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:About_Wikisource
Hypothetically there might be a MediaOberon which handes 
a Text without corruption.  

Regards,               ... Lyall E.
 
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