Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
Please don't be insulted, I appreciate very much what you are doing for GNU Pascal, but I think your note gives a good impression of the major obstacles for newcomers to gpc. A lot of information is hidden behind the web sites in personal memories.
I know of the following sites:
http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html http://alignment.hep.brandeis.edu/Software/Pascal/Pascal.html http://www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html https://github.com/hebisch/gpc
Maybe there are more.
I would say that www.gnu-pascal.de is dead: it got only minimal updates beyond gcp-20050331.
Some infos from the brains went to the mailing list and is available in the archive. But it is unclear to me (and I guess others also) which information is still relevant and which is out of date. This is a bit frustrating, but as long as we have only more or less hobbyists working on GNU Pascal, we are out of luck.
At github there is updated manual (changes to earlier versions are small, but for example it contains up-to-date features list). There is a lot of extra material at www.gnu-pascal.de, it was without update for long time so a lot is out of date. But for extras (as opposed to core gpc) I am not aware of newer material.
I do not know who, how, and where the collected and hopefully current information could be concentrated, but I think it would be very good to have a central place ...
Peter Gerwinski noted las march a vague chance to have some student working for her/his thesis on GNU Pascal ...
This is where non-developers can help a lot. We really need new maintainer for gpc web site. AFAIK www.gnu-pascal.de is under control of Peter Gerwinski, we can ask him to give access to new maintainer or establish new site. And in general simple thing that all gpc regulars can do: spread the word. If you are not sure what to say ask here and once facts are established repeat them elsewere.