spir wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
I think this applies directly to D2.
Note: this post is no offence to Andrei's great work. Just a report we
/also/ need a free/copyleft D2 manual; or that TDPL's content becomes
free in a short while. Even more since TDPL was kind of a premature
publication, describing not-yet-implemented, even less validated,
features. Online addenda / corrections / rewritings cannot fill the gap.
Unfortunately, our society's culture is such that people will rarely
*buy* a free-like-in-freedom book to thank authors and allow them going
on working for the community. This nearly forces people who wish to get
something back from their (usually huge) work to publish in a
proprietary way; for software, even more PLs, making frozen manuals for
live tools, and making improvements impossible.
Denis
I would say that what we really need is tutorials, rather than a
refernce work. Most urgently we need to make sure that the existing
tutorials that contain errors or refer to obsolete/removed features, get
pulled down.
