While looking at the WDG (and please don't count me in about arguing whether it's WDG or WD'sG or WD'G), I came onto the Advanced Topics book after the two big ones ("Developing Wine" and "Wine Architecture")
I does seem very odd to me as it right now: - it just contains "random" bits of information on some parts of wine - we don't have (yet) a uniform way to qualify something of advanced
So my proposal would be to: - get rid of "Advanced Topics" book altogether, and keep only "Developing Wine" (the way we'd like development going on) and "Wine architecture" (the way it works - or it's supposed to) - move the various items from "Advanced Topics" to where they belong (see below) - maybe tag in both the "developing" and "architecture" books which parts are really advanced (change of font, specific paragraph type... pick up the visual effect you like most)
The mapping that could be done would be: 14.1 Keyboard => Architecture/X11DRV DLL 14.2 Undocumented API => somewhere in the "developing" chapter 14.3 accelerators => Architecture/USER32.DLL 14.4 HW trace => somewhere in the "developing" chapter (likely in debugging) 15 Porting to new OS => somewhere in the "developing" chapter (likely in writing patches, to be renamed as "coding practice" or so) 16 Consoles => Architecture/KERNEL32.DLL 17 Address space => Architecture/6.3.4 (as advanced material) 18 Regression testing => somewhere in the "developing" chapter (in conformance tests)
Likewise, the 5.1 about adding new languages could be moved into the "coding practice" part.
If noone objects, I'll submit the changes.
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