If what you are suggesting would result in a pointer to a COMPLETE list (i.e. full bibliography of all books perl) somewhere then I'm all for it. It would be a clean solution to a recurring problem. It might be interesting to have people post their favorite top ten picks somewhere just as a side note.
--hsm > -----Original Message----- > From: _brian_d_foy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:56 AM > To: perl-documentation@perl.org; perlfaq-workers@perl.org > Subject: Re: perlfaq2: Perl books > > 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]
