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Hi,
I have the PDL Book. It is a great effort, but with some oddities that are not simple to solve. It is a step forward, compared to Prima itself, where there is not something similar (ignoring the cited book about Tk). The point is not having the stuff printed, and having a cover. A book is something quite different to its content. Going to O'Reilly would mean a process of reading, proof reading, validating, rewiriting what is not consistent, reordering subjects in better ways, changing examples, adding images as needed, formatting the material to have in one page if the need to turn the page would be a problem for reading. Draft are read by people that validate that content in the perspective of the reader, and check the validity of the content. At least, this makes a book. A book is a job of authors and at least other 10 people. Yes it could be a great idea to contact O'Reilly, and the PDL Book could help very much. But Mastering PDL would be another thing. Fabio D'Alfonso fax: +39.06.874.599.581 * Hidden numbers are automatically rejected by the phoneWhat can save, in this sense, Prima is the avaialabilty of the "Mastering Perl/Tk", that shows many features in common with Prima (ot that Prima ported) as the geometry manager. For PDL there is nothing out there that can act in this way.So if one is looking for a marketing tool, that means creating the conditions to have a book on the bookshelf.I know that the PDLporters just finished at least a working copy of the PDL::Book; is you concern that it be "dead-tree available"? If so I'm sure they could shop it around, Oriellly or Onyx Neon come to mind. Joel |
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