Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > > is a must for a developer. Only HTML/PDF/PS/TXT formats. >

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:43:36PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > > IMHO it would be better to provide HTML and text formats, together with the > > source format from where on the preferred document format can be generated. > >

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > So we'd have some sort of book-get package, like the controversial > porn-get (which shares the characteristics you've described)? Heh, so we could indeed have book-get install packagename and have preferences for documentation format. A

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > doc-gen ebook-foo pdf > That is a very interesting idea. I'd go for one... something like this ? (NB. not tested throughly, nor complete yet.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer translate-docformat Description

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread Alan Shutko
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep. Instead of all these packages with ps and pdf files, whereever possible, > why don't we just have the LaTeX/Texinfo/Tex/Docbook/whatever source, with > instructions on how to build ps/pdf in README.Debian? Better yet, standardize a script used by a

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > IMHO it would be better to provide HTML and text formats, together with the > source format from where on the preferred document format can be generated. Yep. Instead of all these packages with ps and pdf files, whereever possi

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-14 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > is a must for a developer. Only HTML/PDF/PS/TXT formats. ^^^ Why is that? I find PDF/PS formats to be to

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:05:09PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > > > What do you think of a

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:30:54PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > > What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collects as > > many guides, faqs and e-books a

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Roland Mas
David N. Welton (2001-09-13 14:30:54 +0200) : > Books are big. Something that pulls in a lot of them is likely to > be quite heavy. I think a package called 'books index' would make > more sense. This would provide an index to all the book packages > that are available in Debian, instructing th

Re: [RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread David N. Welton
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some e-books are available also under Open Publication License. > What do you think of a pseudo package `ebooks-dev' which collects as > many guides, faqs and e-books as possible (in HTML format whenever > possible)? Is this a well-known quest

[RFC] Developer documentation packages.

2001-09-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
Hi folks. I think there is a fundamental lacks of `general' documentation for developers in Debian. I'd like to see some e-book available as packages under /usr/share/doc. E.g. an HTML reference or many e-books currently available at DevEdge, or many others - Thinking C/Java/C++?. Some e-books a