[Firebird-devel] Firebird/InterBase Documentation Sources

[Andy C. <an...@ad...>]

I am working on documentation.

I am in these mailing lists: =
fir...@li... and =
int...@me.... Is there some other mailing list or news =
group that I should be a member of, such as =
Fir...@li... (no such thing) or =
int...@me... or the like?

I have found that the primary documentation is the Borland InterBase 6 =
Beta Documentation set. Borland still points to this as the =
documentation for their latest InterBase release so apparently even =
Borland hasn't updated it.

Mr. Borland, sir: I have heard that you cannot put the Beta =
Documentation Set into open source because it contains material which =
comes from non-Borland sources. Please consider identifying that =
restricted material and releasing the remainder somehow so that we can =
produce good current documenation applicable to both IB and FB. Perhaps =
I could be allowed to create Open Source documenation based on updating =
some of the other files in =
ftp://ftpc.inprise.com/pub/interbase/techpubs/? Thank you.

I have found an incredible number of short articles and FAQ files on =
various web sites.=20

What I look for as a first goal is a web page which references all =
documentation files, containing copies where possible or mere links =
where copyright problems arise. Such a documenation site would serve as =
a centralized Internet reference source but would not yet be searchable =
due to the variety of formats.