Version 3 of BOOK Best of The Tcl'ers Wiki

Updated 2003-06-13 19:09:06

This Wiki is a very rich resource. Browsing is nice, but I kinda wish that the gems here were available in printed format. Not exactly a cookbook, but an edited best of Wiki (games, toys, techniques, hacks, etc).

-- Todd Coram

RS: This topic has been discussed several time in the Tcl chatroom. The biggest problem seems to be the very different views on copyright by publishers and by us. A publisher would require to receive the rights to the text of the book, and might even sue people who reuse contents of this Wiki. (I think it happended to Wolfram's MathWorld). So for the time being, even if we found a willing publisher, chances are very little... Actually, the title for the non-existing book that I had in mind is Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming ;-)

Todd Coram: Ugh. Darn publishers. I suppose it would depend on the publisher. I did a chapter for an Addison Wesley book and retained full copyright on the text. But, I suppose a Tcl Wiki book probably wouldn't sell big, so the publishers would try to get every dime (and rights) possible. I suppose it would be pointless to do an online book (since the Wiki is *online*). Although such a book would be targetted toward printing (PDF or postscript).... sigh, just thinkin'.