D Programming Language Specification ebook

[Johann MacDonagh]

On 7/4/2011 6:17 AM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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 The DLL example code is outdated as well IIRC.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 The pages need to be updated completely independently from any book that may or may not be published and independently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

I wasn't complaining about the current quality. I just wanted to point 
out if the site were to be packaged up and sold there should be a easy 
way for purchasers to get an updated version as the site gets cleaned up.