Hi Joe, my hero On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 08:37 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > ... > > We really, *really* need some hero to take over the tutorial and finish > > it off. ... > > Hey, I've been lurking around here in awe of the great work you guys > have done on gtk-perl; maybe this is something I could help with. > However, I think it really takes an expert to write a good tutorial, and > I'm no expert at Gtk, or Perl (although I think there are only about 5 > Perl _experts_... maybe it's some kind of cosmic limit).
The tutorial would benefit of the point of view from a newcomer, as he or she knows better what are the pitfalls and the tricky issues when dealing with Perl and GTK. For the time being, the editorial choice was to follow the C tutorial, to the point of actually lifting entire chapters from it, and landing them after a short editing inside the Perl version. Once feature equivalence was reached, the plan was to add the more Perl-ish sections, like some recipes or examples where gtk-perl is actually easier for the new user than C. James Curbo and me left two files about the coding and writing style for the tutorial: you can find them here: http://gtk2-perl.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-tutorial/Style http://gtk2-perl.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-tutorial/Style.docbook > As long as someone with better skills than mine will agree to be an > editor, and promise to answer some dumb questions, I'll give it a go. The entire tutorial is in CVS: you can download the source SGML file, change it and then send me patches: I'll try and review them as soon as I receive them; if I'm being lazy, you're authorised to complain publicly on the list about me being the bottleneck: within 24 hours, a couple of guys with a blowtorch will be shipped to my address and I won't be a bottleneck anymore, I swear. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
