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?
etc.
Maybe we can get a detailed aim to write at least into the todo?
Cu,
Thomas