Re: [Firebird-docs] Quick Start Guide: 1.0 and 1.5

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Paul Vinkenoog wrote:

> As said in another email, I'm roughly 75% through updating the Quick
> Start Guide to include the Firebird 1.5 info. However, this leads to
> all kinds of nested forks of the type:
> 
>   If you use Firebird 1.0.x, then
>     - If you're on Win9x/Me, do this;
>     - On Win NT/2000/XP, do the other thing;
>   If you use Firebird 1.5.x, then
>     - On Win9x/Me, do the mambo;
>     - On Win NT/2000/XP, do the samba;
> 
> I think this makes the document way too complicated, *especially* for
> the new users who are its main target audience. So unless there are
> serious objections I'll make two QSGs: one for 1.0.x, the other for
> 1.5.x, and create separate branches for them in the CVS tree. For me
> this is hardly more work than what I'm doing now, and for both readers
> and future doc maintainers it's a lot more convenient.

Should have read further :)
That is the sort of thing I was trying to explain in the other post ;)
Add the Linux stuff to it, and versions of Linux
Bring in JDBC and PHP.
The CONTENT needs to be more directed, rather than trying to produce a 
one size fits all book. Which is what I was trying to get at with the 
demo 'Using Guide' :)

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