There used to be, but there don\'t seem to be any direct links. A little digging around revealed some answers which I thought it would be useful to share.
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There is no 'right' answer to my question, but the discussion has proved to be very useful.
As CakePHP now publish 'offline-able' manuals on their website for 2.x http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/index.html this thread is effectively redundant.