From: Chris Burrows <chris@cfbsoftware.com>, Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:01:27 +0930

If I am interested in the detail of the code changes I keep snapshots of the source folder(s) and use a difference listing / merge tool like BeyondCompare (a Windows application by Scooter Software) to identify /synchronise the code changes.

A personal archive. You don't sell Astobe with a list of revisions for the buyer to make before using. Correct?

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, It's admirable. I've contributed to it. Two significant capabilities are not in the OCP and are available with MediaWiki. Page specific history with 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. What is better or best? Bernhard mentioned difficulty in configuring Sourceforge to archive Oberon source Texts while allowing convenient reading by a human. 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. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://easthope.ca/Peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca