From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T01:25:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Downloadable version of "Programming Ruby"?

"Pit Capitain" <pit@capitain.de> writes:

> On 17 Jul 2002, at 22:37, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> > (...) The language reference chapter is
> > currently truncated, as the way Ruby handles class variables has
> > changed since 1.6.1, and that means that one of the code examples now
> > fails. I'll look at this when I get a chance.
> 
> Just a thought: I guess it needs a fair, ongoing amount of work to 
> keep Programming Ruby up-to-date with new ruby versions. Is it 
> possible to somehow organize a wiki or open source like 
> community project to continuously update Programming Ruby?

I'd love to do that. The problem I have is that I also have to keep
the print version up-to-date. Every now and then AWL say "there's a
reprint happening, do you have any corrections?". But... I can't
change the pagination: because of the way books are printed it costs a
lot to remake all the plates (or whatever they're called nowadays), so
I have to send them individual pages with changes. And that's a hard
thing to do.

However, the problem is getting fairly severe, so perhaps it's time to
go back to my editor and see what we can do.

> Maybe some people on this list have some time and are willing to 
> give you something back. I don't have much free time, but I'd surely 
> volunteer for small tasks.

Thank you for that.


Dave