On 1/19/15 2:49 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 16:41:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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I don't know. So what would be the replacement? BTW turns out that
dlangspec.pdf is downloaded quite a bit. -- Andrei
Bummer.
I never used it, so I figured I should give it a try before attempting
to kill it.
I didn't see it at first sight on the download page (which is quite
inconsistent), but it's there.
So I simply searched the website. First result was a link to your post
on the newsgroup, second was this: http://dlang.org/dlangspec.pdf
No link to downloads or specs on the first page of google results (but
that might be different for others).
ATM, it's 4 completely useless pages, and seem to have been this way for
quite some time:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Searching Github yield no confidence in it either (
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/687 )
That is recent. Many changes to content break the pdf build and I didn't
have the time to fix it.
How many maintainers actively work on the pdf / mobi version ? From what
I can grep from dlang.org's commit, you are the only one taking care of
this.
I'm just saying a pdf/mobi version is not important, or there's no
interest in it.
All I'm saying is that Ali poured years of work to write and keep his
book up to date. So why don't we use that ?
You need both tutorial and reference.
But that's beside the point. This seems to suggest the choice is "if we
didn't have to build the mobi and pdf, the road is clear to using Great
Framework(tm)". There are a few issues with that, such as nobody seems
to agree what the Great Framework is, though I'd happily switch to
vibe.d for obvious reasons if there were a champion for it; second,
after all is said and done it's me to pay the piper.
Andrei
