Printed documentation?

SDL Development
1

I’ve had a couple of requests for professionally bound versions of the
SDL API documentation.

How many people would be interested in buying printed and bound documentation?
If I did this, I would only charge the cost of printing and shipping.
I’m not set up to handle e-commerce, so I would probably just accept a
check drawn on a U.S. bank, and send the docs upon receipt of the check.

Thoughts?
Please reply to me directly.
Thanks,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

2

That depends… When SDL 1.3.0 gets released, would the SDL 1.2.x documentation
suddenly become useless? Or will the API be preserved with just the code behind
it changed?

Sam Lantinga wrote:> I’ve had a couple of requests for professionally bound versions of the

SDL API documentation.

How many people would be interested in buying printed and bound documentation?
If I did this, I would only charge the cost of printing and shipping.
I’m not set up to handle e-commerce, so I would probably just accept a
check drawn on a U.S. bank, and send the docs upon receipt of the check.

Thoughts?
Please reply to me directly.
Thanks,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

3

That depends… When SDL 1.3.0 gets released, would the SDL 1.2.x documentation
suddenly become useless? Or will the API be preserved with just the code behind
it changed?

The next generation SDL API will be 2.0. The current 1.2 API will not change
significantly before the 2.0 release which is a ways out.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

4

printed docs sounds good, would you post worldwide?> ----- Original Message -----

From: slouken@devolution.com (Sam Lantinga)
To:
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:26 AM
Subject: [SDL] Printed documentation?

I’ve had a couple of requests for professionally bound versions of the
SDL API documentation.

How many people would be interested in buying printed and bound
documentation?
If I did this, I would only charge the cost of printing and shipping.
I’m not set up to handle e-commerce, so I would probably just accept a
check drawn on a U.S. bank, and send the docs upon receipt of the check.

Thoughts?
Please reply to me directly.
Thanks,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

5

I think I’d be interested, then.

Sam Lantinga wrote:> > That depends… When SDL 1.3.0 gets released, would the SDL 1.2.x documentation

suddenly become useless? Or will the API be preserved with just the code behind
it changed?

The next generation SDL API will be 2.0. The current 1.2 API will not change
significantly before the 2.0 release which is a ways out.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl