On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:40:51PM +0100, Tom wrote: > > Isn't PHP's greatest strength its online-ness and user comments? Why > not use it that way, there's plenty of mirrors, and browsers usually > have caching mechanisms. :) > Yes. However, there are times when it is nice to be able to have a copy of the documentation on the local machine. Like when Internet access is unavailable.
> If that's not enough, they offer documentation for offline use at [1]. > Personally, I prefer to use the Debian packaged documentation whenever possible, since it usually more closely matches the version included in Debian. If upstream is very active with documentation, like PHP or PostgreSQL, then they keep the online docs very up to date. Thus, they may not exactly match what is installed if you are using the Debian packages. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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