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[Docaml-devel] Wiki

[Andrei F. <and...@gm...>]

   As it's somewhat complicated to mess with the current sources and
compile them to see the result, wouldn't it be better if we could have
an wiki for documenting the OCaml system ? Then, as the content gets
mature, it can be rendered in other formats. There's even an OCaml
wiki now, we'd need only a host (or we could try a php wiki and go
with sourceforge).

   What do you think ?

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[]s, Andrei de A. Formiga

Re: [Docaml-devel] Wiki

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

* Andrei Formiga (and...@gm...) wrote:
>    As it's somewhat complicated to mess with the current sources and
> compile them to see the result, wouldn't it be better if we could have
> an wiki for documenting the OCaml system ? Then, as the content gets
> mature, it can be rendered in other formats. There's even an OCaml
> wiki now, we'd need only a host (or we could try a php wiki and go
> with sourceforge).
>=20
>    What do you think ?

This is a great idea, and I'm 100 % for it. Unless it makes things too=20
complex, we should definitely try to use the ocaml wiki=20
(http://sandbox.merjis.com/). I might also be able to find a box to use=20
as a server at INRIA (we have an Apache 2.0 running, I'd need to install=20
the rest of the software ... this is on a Fedora Core 2, which I do not=20
know at all though).

I'm going to try to investigate this, see if I can get it installed. =20
I'll let you know. Thanks for suggesting this.

Alan Schmitt

--=20
The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen.
=2EO.
=2E.O
OOO

Re: [Docaml-devel] Wiki

[Didier Le B. <did...@me...>]

Andrei Formiga wrote:
>    As it's somewhat complicated to mess with the current sources and
> compile them to see the result, wouldn't it be better if we could have
> an wiki for documenting the OCaml system ? Then, as the content gets
> mature, it can be rendered in other formats. There's even an OCaml
> wiki now, we'd need only a host (or we could try a php wiki and go
> with sourceforge).
> 
>    What do you think ?

If it really eases contributing to it, it may be a good idea. However, 
one of the advantages of LaTeX is that you immediately get different 
formats such as pdf and html (with hevea).

If we go for the wiki, should we let almost anybody modify the content 
(with a quick human check to avoid garbage) ? Do you know how to setup 
all this ?

In short, I approve the wiki.

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Didier