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

[peter at easthope.ca]

80 or 90% of my previous message was truncated.  Trying again 
with some errors corrected.

From: chris at cfbsoftware.com (Chris Burrows), Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:01:27 +0930
> I can't speak for NO ...

My primary interest in Oberon is for use as a personal workstation.
At present, many of the workstation functionalities in NO have not 
been adopted into a FPGA Oberon.  

>From chris at cfbsoftware.com  Sat Sep 17 02:04:36 2016
> Not correct ...

My apologies.  Will try a restatement.

Usually a software package is distributed in it's latest form. 
Distribution of an old version, with a textual description of 
revisions for the user to make, is unusual.  When the revision 
list is too long it is infeasible.

>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, OCP is admirable.  I've contributed to it. 
Three significant capabilities are not in the OCP and are 
available with MediaWiki.  Page specific history.  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.  Better possibilities?  
  
Bernhard mentioned difficulty in configuring Sourceforge to archive 
Oberon source Texts while allowing convenient reading by a human.
I can't cite his note at present.

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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