[fpc-pascal]Question to the offical fpc book

[Iván Montes]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

 > Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
 > > The search function will be added as soon as I have some time.
 > > The ability for users to add comments will not be added since
 > > that is not the idea of documentation. For this we have mailing
 > > lists and forums.
 >
 > I think that this suggestion is quite good. First, the comments to the
 > php functions contain often helpful hints and tricks. Further,
 > suggestions and comments to the docs are very close to the contents.
 > It's much harder to search the mailing lists and forum. I think also
 > that such a system encourages users to comment the docs which is helpful
 > to improve them. Maybe it's worth a try?


I agree with Michael, at least partially.

I don't think that a documentation like in php.net will be good for FPC main
docs, however it could be a really good alternative to document the several
specific APIs (OpenGL, MySQL, Win32 ...)
Although I'd preffer a code repository in the style of the old SWAG ;)

ciao, ivan