On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Bob Archer wrote: > Does the nightly book contain changes for 1.7?
Very few, if at all. > If so, is there anyway > possible to branch the book at the point before 1.7 stuff had been > added to it and changing the red-book page so rather than having the > 1.5 version and the nightly it has the 1.6 version and the nightly. I suppose this is technically possible. But note that the book has barely been updated since the 1.5 release anyway. There aren't many people working on the book. Apart from a few occasional commits nothing much is happening to it. So I'm more worried about whether we'll get the book thoroughly updated for 1.7 in the first place. We'll need more activity on the book's development to get to the point where thinking about branching it for 1.7 is worth it. In case you didn't know, the book is run as a regular open source project, and anyone is welcome to send patches and get involved to the point of getting direct commit access to the book. See http://svnbook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/en/HACKING if you're interested. Contributions are not only welcome but very much needed. Stefan
