[fpc-pascal] Where and how is the FPC documentation created?

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote:

> A few months ago I inquired and got some info about FPC docs - discussed in
> this thread
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2011-November/068595.html,
> the result of which can be found here - http://fpdocs.rca2.net and here  -
> http://fpdocs.rca2.net/user/user.html, when FPC was at 2.4.4
>
> When I visit the source page
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/user.html it is not on 2.6.0.
>
> 1. Are the created by a tool or hand edited?

Depends on what you mean. The docs are made by hand. When we make a release,
we manually upload the new version.

>
> 2. Is there some page where the original docs are created?

No.

>
> 3. Are they text files that are stored under version control?

Yes.

>
> 4. Is there some page where previous versions are available?

No.

>
> PS. After some searching questions 2, 3 and 4 are answered -
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcdocs/.
>
> One more thing is there some other page where the commit messages for the
> files are noted? I can only see plain text.

No.

Michael.