On Feb 5, 2008 4:28 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I looked at that site, and there was no mention of an electronic (PDF) > version. I far prefer that format since it is friendlier to trees, takes up > no space in my office, is much easier to search, and I can adjust the size > of the text when my eyes get tired.
Here's to dead trees! They rest my eyes, they carry to any physical location I wish. Truth be told, I'm not interested in the book as a reference, but rather to see what to recommend to CMake newbies. > If you are concerned with short-term money rather than long-term promotion > of CMake and the potential money that might come from that, then you will > probably want to distribute an electronic version of your book with reduced > user freedom. I think such a restricted version would be acceptable so long > as at minimum the user was free to make backup copies for their own use. My opinion is that Kitware doesn't need to provide the entire book in an easily pirated medium. I do think they need to freely give away enough documentation to serve as a basic language syntax and command reference. I have filed http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=6295 on this issue. A CMake newbie needs enough free documentation to become an intermediate user. After that, they can choose to RTFM, grep sources, read mailing list archives, or buy books. I don't think they need to get everything that anyone would ever write about CMake for free. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
