Paul Winkler wrote:
Maybe not... but it's certainly easier to gripe than to help. If you look a little further down, you see a note from me asking for help with updating / improving the API reference in question. So far I have heard from exactly one person (hi Don).
Good on ya mate (thats Kiwi for, like, well done, or something). I feel unqualified to say anything, as I have never contributed to the Zope Book, but sometimes the reason people post questions here is actually that the Zope Book offered little or no real help for somebody who did not already understand the Zope environment and mechanisms inside-out. One major missing feature is valid, real-world, EXAMPLES. If all you have for a reply here is a terse and unhelpful statement about "read the Zope Book you loser" then please, don't bother posting white noise into the conversation. If you care about a supportive development community, please try to produce an example that could be added to the particular section of the Zope Book relating to the question somebody has posted here. Or bother to read that section of the Zope Book yourself and work out why a beginner was struggling with it. -- Les Ferguson Software developer Waitakere, NZ