Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manual page draft, version 0.9b From: eschmid+sic <email protected>
Date: 08/20/00

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:05:55AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 00:56 21/08/2000, eschmid+sic <email protected> wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:16:55AM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > > At 23:46 20/08/2000, eschmid+sic <email protected> wrote:

> >What the current manual needs is a complete function reference and a good
> >language reference for PHP 4.
>
> I don't understand you really. You say that if the manual remains a
> reference manual it's a bad idea, and then you say it needs to be... a
> reference manual.

I mean the manual have to be a complete reference manual with some more or
less language reference sections in it. A manual which will people not
only read online. If it is as nearly so good as books they will buy a
manual in a printed form. Every child needs now a Harry Potter, and
every PHP newbie needs a PHP manual. Do you understand me now?
 
> >What I have in mind is to sell the manual as a book on demand. We have
> >here many printing companies who feeds a machine with a PostScript file
> >and at the end there comes out a book which will send to the buyer.
>
> How is that related? Again, as the manual is GPL'd, anybody can sell it
> with or without our consent (we basically gave our consent already). We
> can try to create our own hardcopies. I still don't see how it's related
> to what this manual should or should not be. Are you interested with
> competing with other books? Why?

The GPL isn't here very helpfull. If a program or document is altert, it
doesn't belong to the GPL. And so the rest should be very clear. I haven't
found my name in this book. But that is another story.

-Egon

PS: We have a new German book in preparation. Nothing is stolen from the
manual. Someone on this list wants to write a foreword? 

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