That's sort of my point. A lot of people don't seem to take in account
that, like accountants and lawyers, etc., a certain amount of due care is
required and with all the stuff out there, it is hard to keep track of
version releases and new functionality. At least what Bruce is planning on
doing will make it easier to keep up to date without having to weed through
a whole new book and pick apart the new info and how to use it.
Open source is great and all, but soo many times it takes a long time to
find useful and relevant info.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert D. Nelson" <RDNELSON@co.centre.pa.us>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:10 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] postgresql 7.1
> >For prohjects such as this that have commercial documentation, why don't
> >they have "patches" for printed books also?
> ...
> >It would be an interesting documentation project that would really keep
> >information organized and relatively accessible ('cause sometimes digging
> >through webpages and email groups is too time consuming).
>
> Police do this with their state codes. They order a new set of state codes
> (perhaps once every 10 or 20 years, or when a new dept. is formed). Every
> year they order updates to the state laws. Usually around 20-30 pages of
> modified and new code for the officers to learn. Dang, that would be nice
to
> have for software, wouldn't it? :)
>
> On the other hand, they could go the route of the Jargon File, another
> web-and-print book. The print book is produced every few years, and the
> online version is kept up to date. The print of Jargon is getting out of
> date tho, so getting the publishers to print it relatively often would be
> important too. At the very least, up-to-date CD-Rom's should be packaged -
I
> bought the Perl Resource Kit, and it had CD's that were 3 years old! What
> use is Perl 4 to me in 1999?
>
>
> Rob Nelson
> rdnelson@co.centre.pa.us
