hbdoc got seriously broken when we attempted to make it EOL independent. The problem with the code is that it has so many potential bugs, that even the smallest modification can cause serious breakage (in some completely different parts of the app).
If I wanted to invest (more) time in this (which I don't), I'd start by replacing the file handling class hierarchy with a few simple functions. It's probably much more easy and convenient to write a new reader from scratch and a writer to some other text formats which can then be processed by an existing, portable documentation tool. The Spanish translation was suggested for deletion, which I agree with (and without having any specific problem with Spanish language itself of course), since English is already enough of a job to maintain, especially without having native Spanish speakers around. Since hbdoc is broken and unless someone volunteers, it's broken beyond repair, I'll move it to examples, along with support files in the SVN tree until we find a better solution. Having it that way is surely better than distributing a fully broken app in /bin. So please speak up if you intent to contribute to: - hbdoc fixage - Spanish translation or have any other suggestions, otherwise I'll do these two moves ASAP. Brgds, Viktor On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Chen Kedem <[email protected]> wrote: > Vlad, > > > Please shortly explain, what is the current state of hbdoc > > and documents in \doc folder, > > As Viktor had said, hbdoc is a bit dodgy. As for the doc directory, it > contain group > of white paper and how-to's in it root, and doc/en contain original work > documentation. > The docs were not updated in the past 9 years (sorry, not in a position to > do that anymore) > so parts marked as Harbour Exceptions are probably obsolete. Basic clipper > functions > and command are probably accurate. doc/es is translated subset of doc/en > but as I don't > read Spanish, I can't tell you much about the quality of those. > > > Chen. > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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