From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 5 14: 4:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02091547D for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-051.thuntek.net [207.66.52.51]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id PAA27695; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:02:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3709248F.292356F0@thuntek.net> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:01:03 -0600 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a showcase opportunity References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > On 05-Apr-99 Donald Wilde wrote: > > Hi, Guys! > > > > I have an opportunity coming up in the medium future which will be a > > great chance to showcase FreeBSD and the Programmer's Doc project. > > Forrest Cavalier, the creator of the ReuseRKT > > (http://www.mibsoftware.com/reuse/), has been at it again. He's created > > a cross-platform source tree mirroring tool called HTTPsync, and DDJ is > > going to be publishing an article on it in the July issue, to hit the > > stands around the beginning of June. In return for my help in promoting > > his RKT site, Forrest has offered to link one or two of our showcase > > projects to his site via HTTPsync. Given the traffic boost he will get > > from DDJ, it will be an excellent firecracker for us as well. > > Sounds cool, I am currently trying to get egcs++ to work a-ok so that I can > install and use everything I need in order to use DocBook for the PDP. > > Current things on the stack with the PDP will include standards/compliance, > functions, crossreferences, manual pages. > > Basically this will do what the other developers forgot to document and > more... > Which has a lot of synergy with Forrest's ReuseRKT. He's not FreeBSD-specific, but he's creating a great programmer's reference. Take a look, you'll see what I mean. Our source code is the foundation of his reference site, although it's growing very fast. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message