In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Robert Spier wrote: > >>> I wonder if perlbook is still relevant in its current form. Moving the > >>> book list to it seems to be a good idea. Anyway it does now > >>> point as well to books.perl.org (#23893). > >> Maybe we can work out something that automatically creates perlbook > >> from books.perl.org. > Ack, XML. But yes, it'd be possible to dump the DB in some format or > other. But do we really want to distribute a list of _all_ the books on > books.perl.org as part of the core docs? That just seems like overkill. > I'd think a hand-picked list of the best books would be more useful. The hand-picked books isn't a very fair way to do things, which is why I was getting antsy about the books that made it into perlfaq2. Popular books, for instance, benefit from a feedback loop. Maybe we can have a more objective measure, such as the books published in the last two years (at least) along with the ones that we hand-pick. Either that, or let's drop the books in perlfaq2 and punt to books.perl.org, and also drop the perlbook man page. -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
