>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 The print of Jargon is getting out of
date tho, so getting the publishers to print it relatively often would be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
