Am 24.03.2011 16:22, schrieb Don:
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.
I agree. Even though D1 tutorials should be left as they are, maybe with
a remark that they're D1 specific.
Some tutorials with examples, including basic ones that introduce the
language, would really be helpful for anyone who wants to start using D
without buying the book. These should be linked on the official D homepage.
After getting started with D it's not too hard to learn more specific
stuff from the existing D documentation (Phobos documentation and the
language specification). Of course Tutorials explaining these topics
would still be useful, because you don't always know where to look for a
specific feature.
I don't think something like TDPL needs to be available for free. Some
tutorials and the existing documentation should be sufficient (For
example "The C Programming Language" or "The C++ Programming Language"
aren't available for free, either).
Cheers,
- Daniel
