Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b

>At 21:38 21-08-00, Zak Greant wrote: >>One major advantage of keeping the tutorials and other supplementary >>materials with the manual is that the PHP team will have control over the >>quality, presentation and licensing of the resources. > >We'll have to live and see if that's true (IMHO it isn't). Uptil now, I >don't think the material coming from the doc team was inherently better >than the material from other sources; That's mostly because the actual >developers of PHP rarely write documentation. The PHP documentation team >is almost 100% PHP users, not developers. > >>This is important because 3rd party sites are often not reliable - they go >>down, change their content and revenue model, become member only, are >>abandoned by their maintainer, etc... > >I can see your point here, even though I don't think it's likely to >happen. Sites like phpbuilder.com, zend.com and weberdev.com aren't likely >to ever become members only. As far as reliability goes, they're much more >reliable than php.net :) > As an added note to this; these sites, at least zend.com, have excellent editors, who will work with the author to create a more finished and complete piece. Sterling