[FM Discuss] FLOSS manuals archive sites - and a volunteer request

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em qui., 25 de nov. de 2021 às 06:25, Mick Chesterman <
M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk> escreveu:

> Hi there,
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> I’ve been working with Alexandre Porres from the pure data community to
> correct older versions of our pure data manual and the current one.
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Hi folks, that's me!

We have been updating the "current" document here =>
https://en.flossmanuals.net/pd-extended/_full/

One thing that was confusing is that this was referred to as a "Pure Data"
manual, but was in fact a "Pd-extended" manual. We changed the title and
I'm editing the first introduction page. What needs to be updated there is
the fact that Pd-extended is long gone and abandoned, and it doesn't run in
newer versions of macOS, for instance. Warnings have been made that the
book is being kept as a historical document, and that it can still be
useful if you adapt the examples to the current version of the official and
main distribution of Pure Data (aka Pd Vanilla) and install the externals
used on the book.

By the way, there are currently no plans whatsoever to start a new and
updated manual on FLOSS Manuals, or elsewhere. Anything like that is pretty
unlikely to happen. Our efforts are just in improving the official manual
that comes with Pd Vanilla (now currently referred to in the edits I made
to the "current" FLOSS manual).

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Now, we also have this archived version of the same book. And I just don't
understand why it exists. It was actually the exact same book, with the
same contents as the "new one". We now have minor edits to explain the
current scenario and avoid confusions, but keeping the archived version
still adds noise and confusion.

As for possible solutions, we can make the same changes back into the
archived one. But why keep both identical books around? One archived, and
another not?

It just makes sense to me to delete the old archived one and just keep this
new one around, which also the same document.

What do you people think?

Thanks a lot for your work keeping up FLOSS Manuals.

Cheers
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