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Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Hi,
I'm currently translating the Subversion book to Norwegian and have a
question/comment about the books audience:
The book says in the first paragraph, section 1:
This book is written for computer literate folk who want to use
Subversion to manage their data. While Subversion runs on a number of
different operating systems, its primary user interface is command-line
based. For that reason, the examples in this book assume the reader is
using a Unix-like operating system, and is relatively comfortable with
Unix and command-line interfaces.
Is this really right? I think that any command line interface in any OS
works. The commands are even a mix of different OSs, for example:
move (mv, rename, ren)
Can this section be corrected (you will even increase your audience with
about 800.23 % :-) to reflech that any (major) command line interface
and OS will do?
Jostein
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Re: Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Posted by "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jo...@josander.net>.
On Saturday 27 December 2003 17.30, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> By the way: the book has been relatively unchanged for 10 months, but
> in the next 1 month we're trying to finish it up for good, now that
> svn-1.0 is imminent. Right now *might* be a bad time to start a new
> translation. :-) If you do, be aware that the book is a moving
> target. (For example, I just rewrote the section right after the
> "Audience" section you're commenting about.)
Yes, I see that it have been some traffic here lately. :-)
I put the project on ice and wait and see. Thanks for answering.
Jostein
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Re: Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Posted by p....@comcast.net.
In a message dated: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:21:14 CST
Ben Collins-Sussman said:
>Well, sure, but perhaps you should wait until we give the word. I'm
>doing a bunch of work over the holiday, but Mike and Fitz will probably
>be doing their own work in January.
Okay, it's not like my commute is going to get any shorter between
now and then. And if it does, I'll probably have more time on my
hands, not less :)
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Re: Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 12:07, p.lussier@comcast.net wrote:
> In a message dated: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:30:51 CST
> Ben Collins-Sussman said:
>
> >By the way: the book has been relatively unchanged for 10 months, but
> >in the next 1 month we're trying to finish it up for good, now that
> >svn-1.0 is imminent.
>
> So does that mean you'd like people to hunker down and proof-read
> stuff in a 'final copy-edit' kind of way? If so, I have a lot of time
> spent on trains commuting during which I'd be happy to review/re-read
> the book again.
Well, sure, but perhaps you should wait until we give the word. I'm
doing a bunch of work over the holiday, but Mike and Fitz will probably
be doing their own work in January.
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Re: Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Posted by p....@comcast.net.
In a message dated: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:30:51 CST
Ben Collins-Sussman said:
>By the way: the book has been relatively unchanged for 10 months, but
>in the next 1 month we're trying to finish it up for good, now that
>svn-1.0 is imminent.
So does that mean you'd like people to hunker down and proof-read
stuff in a 'final copy-edit' kind of way? If so, I have a lot of time
spent on trains commuting during which I'd be happy to review/re-read
the book again.
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Paul
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Re: Q/Comment: book/ch00.xml (SECTION 1/AUDIENCE):
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 10:10, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> Is this really right? I think that any command line interface in any OS
> works. The commands are even a mix of different OSs, for example:
> move (mv, rename, ren)
Sure, but the examples in the book really *are* Unix-oriented. They
show more than just people running 'svn' commands: there are examples
with normal Unix commands as well (running system commands like 'ls',
'pwd', 'cat'), and paths are displayed with '/' instead of '\', there
are references to to places like "/home/username", and so on.
I suppose we can add a short disclaimer to the "Audience" section, and
point out that the svn subcommands look the same on any cmdline
interface.
By the way: the book has been relatively unchanged for 10 months, but
in the next 1 month we're trying to finish it up for good, now that
svn-1.0 is imminent. Right now *might* be a bad time to start a new
translation. :-) If you do, be aware that the book is a moving
target. (For example, I just rewrote the section right after the
"Audience" section you're commenting about.)
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