On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 06:29:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/3/2012 9:25 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
There is a link to a file `dlangspec.mobi` on this page:
http://dlang.org/spec.html
The ebook link is dead. I tried building an ebook myself using
the makefile, but
to no avail; kindlegen encountered dozens of problems with the
generated
dlangspec.html.
Anyway, spec.html is not even reachable through any links on
the site as far as
I can tell. Shouldn't "Language Reference" in the sidebar link
to that page? It
currently sends you to lex.html. "Library Reference" links to
an (incomplete!)
overview of Phobos; it's probably a good idea to have the two
links behave the
same, even if that means "Library Reference" linking to, say,
/phobos/object.html.
I see that there is also an ebook sold on Amazon linked from
that page; not sure
what I think about monetizing an open source site like that,
even if the
copyrights of contributors are technically yielded to Walter.
I'm thinking there
might be some good reason here, though.
Amazon's minimum price for an ebook is $.99 (after all, Amazon
is entitled to make some money off of their system). The
Digital Mars cut of this "monetization" works out to $.35 per
copy. I can assure you that nobody is getting rich off of that.
But if that still offends anyone, that's why it is linked to on
the web site. It seems to have suffered bit rot in the transfer
of the site to dlang.org, and simply having a number of people
working on the text. It needs fixing.
I have attempted to donate it to the local government library,
but they ignore my repeated emails and phone messages (I
suspect that nobody actually works there).
I attempted to add it to Amazon's free lending library, but
Amazon refused it because the book is not exclusive to Amazon.
Ah, I suspected the reason was something like that, I think
that's great :)
Sorry if it sounded like an attack, and thank you for clearing
that up for me.
For these and other bit rot issues with the ebook, please add a
pull request to github to fix them.
Right, just making sure I wasn't doing something wrong.
So, does anyone have any thoughts on whether "Language Reference"
should link to spec.html or keep its current behaviour?
