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RE: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:08:46 +0100
- Subject: RE: Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
> > > I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be
> > > duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both
> /usr/bin/|/usr/man and
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming.
> >
> > Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents...
>
> Well, my personal preference has always been to include whatever
> documentation a package has, whether it be man pages or supplementary
> HTML documentation. I figure if space is really an issue for a
> particular user, they can delete the documentation if they wish.
Actually - mine too - but it was only a suggestion based on what I've
seen debian do.
> As a maintainer, I'd rather provide the user with the complete package.
> If the original software includes documentation, then in my opinion
> the package I produce won't be complete unless I include the original
> documentation.
My only point is that you aren't producing *one* package. If you were
coding two classes you _would_ factor out common code into a seperate
base class/included/hidden/internal/.../common entity.
> In my opinion, distributing software without documentation is like
> selling hardware without manuals. Sure, you can *still* use it, but
> it's really a pain to download the documentation if you'd like explore
> additional features or configurations.
I object to the fact that you think I suggested that you dont
distribute the documentation - I *NEVER* suggested that you don't.
Sometimes it's nice to be able to download the documentation without
having to install the software then you can check it does x, y, z
without having to clutter your harddrive.
At the end of the day - it was just a suggestion to *help* you
factor out commonality. Sorry you disliked it so.
J.
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