I seem to notice a pattern ... Is it generally accepted practice to blame the whitewashers whenever a system design and implementation fails to be adopted? On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de
wrote:
On 02/06/2012 07:20 PM, Greg Newby wrote:
My view is that it would be cheating for you to bypass the
original master files in favor of your own new masters, for the live site at www.gutenberg.org. Spinoffs and demos elsewhere would certainly not be cheating. And, updating the convertion at www.gutenberg.org to use the existing original master files is very much welcome.
I'm generating from my own RST masters instead of HTML for a selected few of the top 10 books. I converted those masters from the existing HTML files with a little script. There were no existing masters for those files.
I didn't delete anybody else's files nor did I remove anybody else's files from the catalog. The only files that changed are the generated ones, living in cache/epub, those that were previously generated from old crappy HTML now are generated from RST. (And look a lot better than before if you ask me.)
I don't regard that as cheating, because I'm not competing against anybody, but acting in the PG spirit of "everybody can contribute everything".
As I already said, the web site is long since ready to accomodate hand-crafted epubs etc. along the generated ones. If there are none yet posted it is not my fault. Instead of bothering me, the people who advocate hand-crafted vanity epubs should have convinced the WWers to start posting them.
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