On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, St��phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
Probably we should find a way to generate HTML from PDF or Latex.
Any ideas?

I've used latex2html several years ago.

+1 for html

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>>>> Now for the documentation when did you send an help documentation for any part of the system?
>>>> Or a bug fix?
>>>> I find quite funny that people always talk but few are doing. We welcome comments/examples help.
>>> No need to get into a cat-fight here :)
>>
>> No this is not my point. But what do people really do to help?
>>
>>> I do agree with Stefan, as well as with you that we could help; but I'm unaware of a good documentation effort outside of the image to start with. Camillo's website project might be the best effort I've seen until now; but then I didn't really look either. Maybe I missed some great website?
>>
>> If this is just to spit out class comment on html I do not call that a documentation.
>> Now we can take the book contents and generate html
>> We have 350 pages in the first book and the same in the second one.
>> People are free to join and write one or two chapters.
>
> St��phane,
>
> Of course you are right: wining/complaining doesn't help, only action does. We need more people like Laurent focusing on documentation.
>
> I for one think that the well written, high quality books that exist (PBE, Seaside Book) are *very valuable*, much better than confusing wiki site (although these have their place as well).
>
> But the other point is: in most other popular languages, what current, young developers do, when they get an error that they don't understand is copy/paste the literal text in Google and in a surprisingly large number of cases you find some real answers in the first page.
>
> This is also related to popularity of course.
>
> Sven