Re: New Debian Reference
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:07:02AM +1000, Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au wrote:
> Hi Osamu
>
>> Some good pointer list of tutorial contents will be nice. I solicit
>> such thing for:
>> * Perl
>> * Python
>> * C
>> * C++
>> * Tcl/Tk
>>
>> I also welcome comments from others.
>
> Do you envision this as a few links to tutorials in each subsection or
> one "tutorials" subsection on its own? The former seems better to me.
> Perhaps you could do one as an example, so we can repeat that in the
> other subsections.
Basically I am thinking links.
> The perl section should probably mention dh-make-perl as a nice way to
> package perl modules that aren't already available in Debian.
Description of this is not really for Debian Reference.
That may be scope of topics for maint-guide or developer reference.
> Similarly, for python, I would welcome an overview of how debian packages
> python modules and what the canonical way to install python eggs is.
> Python packaging has changed substantially for the better both in the
> python community and within Debian in recent years.
Same as above.
> Is ruby used enough in Debian to justify being included in this chapter?
I will add ruby to:
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch13.en.html#listofpackagestohelpprograming
It is as popular as Tcl/Tk.
Osamu
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