Re: perlfaq2: Perl books

In article <[email protected]>, Dave Rolsky
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Robert Spier wrote:

> >>> I wonder if perlbook is still relevant in its current form. Moving the
> >>> book list to it seems to be a good idea. Anyway it does now
> >>> point as well to books.perl.org (#23893).

> >> Maybe we can work out something that automatically creates perlbook
> >> from books.perl.org.

> Ack, XML.  But yes, it'd be possible to dump the DB in some format or 
> other.  But do we really want to distribute a list of _all_ the books on 
> books.perl.org as part of the core docs?  That just seems like overkill. 
> I'd think a hand-picked list of the best books would be more useful.

The hand-picked books isn't a very fair way to do things, which is 
why I was getting antsy about the books that made it into perlfaq2.
Popular books, for instance, benefit from a feedback loop.

Maybe we can have a more objective measure, such as the books published
in the last two years (at least) along with the ones that we hand-pick.

Either that, or let's drop the books in perlfaq2 and punt to
books.perl.org, and also drop the perlbook man page.

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brian d foy, [email protected]