On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:27:30PM -0800, Jim Adcock wrote:
Greg>We've only been discussing this for a week or two. I encourage anyone wanting to do their own experiments to go ahead. Nothing that Marcello or anyone else did is deployed to www.gutenberg.org yet.
Sorry, I think some of us must be confused by Marcello deploying "his" version of the files at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
for example, which is a privilege he has given himself that none of the rest have. What I think we had imaging was the Marcello was going to come up with was a way for *any* of us to post our examples say to the "More Files" category at that location, rather than Marcello giving himself "special privileges" to post his stuff directly into the main directory, while keeping the rest of us out.
I agree this seems like cheating. However, Marcello does constantly tweak the auto-conversion process, and there's no reason to stop now. (Especially when there is a flurry of ideas, suggestions and criticism.) The experiment with Mercurial seems to me to be just an experiment, with a couple of eBooks. -- Greg