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Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download
Date 2013-08-23 11:47 +1000
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, how many people actually depend on the downloadable
> documentation, rather than simply reading things online?

Many countries do not have infrastructure that allows reliable, fast,
low-latency internet access 24-hours-a-day. Most countries's internet
infrastructure, in fact, does not satisfy all of those.

And without all of those being satisfied simultaneously, accessing
programmer documentation online is frustratingly inconsistent. It is
much more convenient and reliable, in those cases, to have the
documentation downloaded and accessible on one's development
workstation.

-- 
 \       “We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, |
  `\    disgraces anyone who would claim it.” —Sam Harris, _The End of |
_o__)                                                     Faith_, 2004 |
Ben Finney

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PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-20 22:14 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 03:32 +1000
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 01:39 -0700
      Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-22 18:46 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-21 13:55 -0400
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 01:45 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 14:15 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-21 14:28 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 04:50 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-21 16:15 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-08-21 20:27 -0400
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 11:47 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 11:54 +1000
    Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-23 13:19 +0000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 16:21 +1000
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-08-23 01:14 -0700
  Re: PEPs should be included with the documentation download Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-23 19:24 +1000

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