D Programming Language Specification ebook

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 4 03:17:45 PDT 2011


On 7/4/2011 3:14 AM, Johann MacDonagh wrote:
> On 7/4/2011 5:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/4/2011 1:50 AM, Johann MacDonagh wrote:
> 
>>> If you set a price we'd have to go through each page and clean them up
>>> / update
>>> some for D2, etc... Donations make it nice because you can release newer
>>> versions and donaters can update their copy without paying again.
>>
>> The idea is to generate the ebook automatically from the web sources.
> 
> Right, but there are some pages that need updating. The FAQ (from a recent NG post), is one. The "Handling errors" page
> probably needs some examples. The DLL example code is outdated as well IIRC. I just think guaranteeing that purchasers
> can get more up-to-date versions as pages are tweaked would be a nice touch, and I'm not sure how well Amazon handles that.

The pages need to be updated completely independently from any book that may or may not be published and independently
from any amount that might be charged.  It's a matter of time/resources.  Please submit bug report and/or pull requests
with proposed changes.

Later,
Brad


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