||*()*|| Hi, Mark.
Me personally don't feel like adding this kind of format into official
site distribution, because:
1. It is not supported by any PHP editors
2. It is not very popular (only about 400 people downloaded it so far)
3. It is integrated with Java based commercial web-service (at least
it seems to be so)
4. ThoutReader is (TM) and
5. PHP community is not a marketplace
MDC> Thank you for your vote of confidence. I appreciate how you and other
MDC> leaders in the PHP community have been forthright with your comments and
MDC> encouraging with your feedback. It has helped us improve our project
MDC> significantly. We will post the document today.
MDC> In an earlier message, you stated "If your redistribution meets are
MDC> licensing requirements and it is useable, then I don't think that we would
MDC> have a problem with linking to it on a prominent place." We would like to
MDC> follow through with your idea.
MDC> I understand the reluctance on taking on yet another project. With your
MDC> permission, we would like to perform this task for the PHP documentation
MDC> team. Because of changes to your documentation from our original parsing,
we
MDC> had to re-write the PHP Parser. What took us one week 9 months ago only
took
MDC> 4 hours this time. Why not take advantage of our expertise? On an ongoing
MDC> basis, we would like to work with you to not only keep the content current,
MDC> but also offer additional translations (since the PHP Parser can handle
MDC> that). We could either provide you with the .jar file for users to download
MDC> directly or one could link to OSoft and pick up the content there like
MySQL
MDC> does. Perhaps there is a place on the documentation downloads page?
MDC> Thanks again for all the support you have given our open source project.
MDC> Best regards,
MDC> Mark
MDC> Mark D. Carey
MDC> President
MDC> OSoft, Inc.
MDC> 253-284-0475
MDC> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MDC> Tacoma, WA 98402
MDC> I have just checked your updated version. Seems to me that you are now
MDC> conforming to our documentation license, so I don't see a problem with
MDC> you distributing the PHP Manual in this format. Since noone volunteered
MDC> for dealing with the generation of this format on our end (and we have
MDC> enough problems with existing formats we generate), I doubt we are going
MDC> to take over the generation ourselfs.
MDC> Regards,
MDC> Gabor Hojtsy
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