> > Very nice idea ;) As I tried to propagte the idea of having a separate > > <book> (!) for developing PHP, and providing it in a separate download, > > I fully agree on at least consolidating these sections all in one place > > in the manual. BTW I still think it would be better to open a new book > > on developing PHP, because this part is **rarely** used by PHP > > programmers. It would make searches faster, download size smaller, > > manual generation faster + simpler, etc. > > hmm.. must have missed your try to propagate, but anyhow: A great idea! > > The licensing-question for the Zend-Part still stays (if we can really > do what we want), but with books we have also some other decision-points > (have to leave urgently, so it might be very incomplete): > > Integration into the phpdoc-path? > Build-handling: "semi-integrated" like the howto? > Should it be provided at www.php.net > only as a compressed file?
Well, I think it still can be stored under phpdoc-LANG/phpdevel, but it needs a separate root XML file. This may add some new bits to the configure script, but IMHO we should not duplicate the configure system [one of the phpdoc meeting ideas was to open a completely new repository for phpdoc-build, and let all the manuals use it - it would be a hard work to do ;)]. So to look a bit closer, IMHO it would be nice to have the phpdevel stuff in the phpdoc-LANG repositories, thus allowing translation, and using the same build system (as the howto does). Goba
