A couple months ago, there was a big struggle on the list over the out-of-date reference manual for GPC, and people proposed suggesting changes through the list.

I have another idea, and I just thought I'd run it past all of you (especially you, Peter)

Since there are a few people who *really* know GPC and all its function and procedure calls, but they don't have the time to document the whole thing as well as write it, but they always had corrections to what people submitted....

What I'm thinking is an extensive, online script (I would give it a shot, in Perl) that would allow everyone to update an online version of the documentation (that would be stored in HTML). Everyone could make their own changes; if they see a little problem, they can clarify it, and expand on each others' work.

I wouldn't bother with passwords and special access -- I would just have regular backups made so that if someone hit it and tried to screw it up, we'd have a good copy backed up.

The HTML file could (somehow?) be translated into texi, for distribution with GPC.

Is this something that would be of value? I'd be interested to hear your suggestions.

Paul.