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REVISION COMPLETE: Thout Reader Update and Link on PHP

Mark D. Carey

2005-02-09, 8:56 pm

Gabor,

We have completed the parsing of the latest version of the PHP documentation
in the ThoutReaderT format and it is ready for your review. The version
number (release date) will be provided on our website. We will be
consolidating PHP 4 and PHP 5 on our site as well into just PHP as your
suggested. To get to the new content, please go to: www.osoft.com/php. The
ThoutReader is available through our website www.osoft.com or directly from
SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/project/show...package_id=1258
90 . Note: We have a new release of the ThoutReaderT coming out on Saturday
which addresses loading issues with certain distributions of Linux.

As I stated before, Gary built a "PHP Parser" that automatically converts
your online documentation into the ThoutReaderT (XHTML) format. We will give
this to you so you can control and distribute your documentation in the TR
format directly from your site. It also parses most languages as well.

Please let me know if there is something we are missing or have failed to
do. We believe this is an accurate representation of your existing
documentation.

Thanks again for all your encouragement,

Mark

Mark D. Carey
President
OSoft, Inc.
253-284-0475
mcarey@osoft.com
2511 South Hood Street
Tacoma, WA 98402

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:39 AM
To: mcarey@osoft.com
Cc: webmaster@php.net; 'PHPdoc'
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] RESPONSE: [PHP-DOC] Re: Thout Reader Update and Link
on PHP

Hi Mark,

Looking forward to the corrected version. As usual, it would be good to
see, whether this format becomes successful, and then put effort into it
on our side - unless someone volunteers otherwise. We do have different
formats which have enough management problems already. If your
redistribution meets are licensing requirements and it is useable, then
I don't think that we would have a problem with linking to it on a
prominent place.

What is the source you use to parse the documentation?

Regards,
Gabor Hojtsy

Gabor Hojtsy

2005-02-11, 3:57 pm

Hi Mark,

> We have completed the parsing of the latest version of the PHP documentation
> in the ThoutReaderT format and it is ready for your review. The version
> number (release date) will be provided on our website. We will be
> consolidating PHP 4 and PHP 5 on our site as well into just PHP as your
> suggested. To get to the new content, please go to: www.osoft.com/php. The
> ThoutReader is available through our website www.osoft.com or directly from
> SourceForge at
> http://sourceforge.net/project/show...package_id=1258
> 90 . Note: We have a new release of the ThoutReaderT coming out on Saturday
> which addresses loading issues with certain distributions of Linux.
>
> As I stated before, Gary built a "PHP Parser" that automatically converts
> your online documentation into the ThoutReaderT (XHTML) format. We will give
> this to you so you can control and distribute your documentation in the TR
> format directly from your site. It also parses most languages as well.
>
> Please let me know if there is something we are missing or have failed to
> do. We believe this is an accurate representation of your existing
> documentation.

I have just checked your updated version. Seems to me that you are now
conforming to our documentation license, so I don't see a problem with
you distributing the PHP Manual in this format. Since noone volunteered
for dealing with the generation of this format on our end (and we have
enough problems with existing formats we generate), I doubt we are going
to take over the generation ourselfs.

Regards,
Gabor Hojtsy

Mark D. Carey

2005-02-11, 3:57 pm

Gabor,

Thank you for your vote of confidence. I appreciate how you and other
leaders in the PHP community have been forthright with your comments and
encouraging with your feedback. It has helped us improve our project
significantly. We will post the document today.

In an earlier message, you stated "If your redistribution meets are
licensing requirements and it is useable, then I don't think that we would
have a problem with linking to it on a prominent place." We would like to
follow through with your idea.

I understand the reluctance on taking on yet another project. With your
permission, we would like to perform this task for the PHP documentation
team. Because of changes to your documentation from our original parsing, we
had to re-write the PHP Parser. What took us one w

9 months ago only took
4 hours this time. Why not take advantage of our expertise? On an ongoing
basis, we would like to work with you to not only keep the content current,
but also offer additional translations (since the PHP Parser can handle
that). We could either provide you with the .jar file for users to download
directly or one could link to OSoft and pick up the content there like MySQL
does. Perhaps there is a place on the documentation downloads page?

Thanks again for all the support you have given our open source project.

Best regards,

Mark

Mark D. Carey
President
OSoft, Inc.
253-284-0475
mcarey@osoft.com
2511 South Hood Street
Tacoma, WA 98402

I have just checked your updated version. Seems to me that you are now
conforming to our documentation license, so I don't see a problem with
you distributing the PHP Manual in this format. Since noone volunteered
for dealing with the generation of this format on our end (and we have
enough problems with existing formats we generate), I doubt we are going
to take over the generation ourselfs.

Regards,
Gabor Hojtsy

Jacques Marneweck

2005-02-11, 3:57 pm

Mark D. Carey wrote:

Hi Mark,

Does the script you guys wrote work via cron without user intervention?

Regards
--jm

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