[Lazarus] Missing Documentation

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Feb 29 11:10:58 CET 2012


On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:23:18 +0100
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 02/29/2012 09:57 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > It is since many years. Have you seen any secondary help for the dialogs? 
> I don't understand what you mean. I think there should be single source 
> for online and offline help. Everything else obviously is not manageable 
> at all. (In fact I don't see how a Wiki can be part of this as - AFAIK - 
> there is no solution for exporting or importing wiki database content 
> for other formats. )

I started it.

 
> > Maybe the discussion was mainly lead by people that "discourage" 
> > without doing something.
> (I don't remember who said this, but I believe it was one from the 
> "core-team".)
> 
> Unfortunately creating / improving the help creation and help viewing 
> infrastructure is a rather complicated and far reaching issue that only 
> can be managed by the core team. (Many thanks to DoDi for trying to get 
> involved!). Using this infrastructure (if decently workable) to help to 
> improve the documentation, non-core-team persons would be able to 
> improve the product.

Have you even tried to edit wiki or use the fpdoc editor?

What needs improving is packaging the help and
creating the offline help.

Mattias




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