On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:58:10PM -0400, Eric Radman wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:44:16PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2013/05/31 08:43, Eric Radman wrote: > > > Some 10 years ago the 'books' category was added to ports. I presume > > > this category was experimental. Has it proved to be useful? > > > should it be deprecated? > > > > > > Consider how I might read "Dive Into Python": > > > > > If you already know about the book, then yes of course there are other > > ways to read it which might be easier. But another way to think of it is > > as a guide to books which porters have found useful/interesting enough > > that they want to share them with others. > > Okay, from that vantage point they're useful, but in that case isn't > this directory wildly incomplete? Now if there were 200 titles it could > be a compelling resource.
That directory is filled by people who wanted those specific books for various reasons. Want some more ? write the port.
