[ros-kernel] Re: Proposed books for rosdocs

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

So you're saying that 'tutorials' will consist of written books...
but 'references' will be generated from a database? Well that sounds
logical.. so lets just start with the tutorials for now, with user
tutorial, developer tutorial.. I think those are the only two
tutorial books we'll need for now.

- Jason

--- Aliberti Emanuele <ea...@io...> wrote:
> (I am back after a few days off line. I see the thread is large
> now. My
> original proposal of two books {tutorials & reference} was probably
> misinterpreted due to my lack of explanation. Here it is what I
> actually
> meant.)
> 
> Behind "tutorials" is the spread unstructured design of the Linux
> HOW-TOs. That is the most proactical way of writing documentation,
> because it is based on real on-the-field needs. It is also the only
> one
> that can (IMHO) succeed right now in this project. A top down
> design
> failed in the past.
> 
> Behind "reference" is simply a database. Database concept is
> inherent in
> the reference idea. If the backend is a database, you can write an
> application for online/offline lookup and one for document
> generation
> (XML, LaTeX, PDF...). I can help in writing the schema (SQL92 or
> MySQL
> to be practical).
> 
> If (I hope so!) ReactOS succeeds, professional technical book
> writers
> will write BOOKS about every possible subject one will need.
> 
> P.S. This is off thread or cross thread: the long term problem with
> C
> header files needs a database approach too. MS has one and an
> application that generates the public and the private sets of
> files.
> 
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