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NO STARCH PRESS RELEASES THE OFFICIAL GNOME 2 DEVELOPER'S GUIDE

Submitted by stro on Sat, 2004-04-17 10:57. Gnome Foundation

An increasing number of developers worldwide are interested in GNOME, the user-friendly GUI and desktop development platform for UNIX and Linux. However, the development documentation for GNOME, while voluminous, is intimidating to a developer not wholly familiar with the GNOME development process. To help rectify this situation, No Starch Press and the GNOME Foundation announce the release of The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide, the first English-language book about developing with GNOME 2. With this book, current and would-be GNOME developers can come up to speed with the building blocks of GNOME development: GLib, GTK, and the GNOME API's.
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Re: Oh great...

Submitted by mawa on Mon, 2004-04-19 12:38.

You should take in account how long it takes to write and publish a book. The German original of "GNOME 2" had 715 pages, lots of them listings, tables and screenshots; I started working on it in earnest (some work had already be done before) in the late spring of 2002; release was in November, I think. Thus I worked more than half a year.

And I wrote the book in a time when I had nothing else to do. Today, as a university student, it would probably take me more than a year to write it.

With the time-based GNOME releases we have now, you can do the math. If you start writing about the CVS HEAD version just after a release, resyncing your work to the CVS version all the time, and writing like hell, you might hit the next release with an up-to-date book.

But that was just what I was trying to do, and still GNOME 2.2 was out pretty soon after my book came out in Germany.

BTW, people just flipping through books and not buying them will not help the situation in any way. :)

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