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Re: Packaging information
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:57:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: Packaging information
- References: <3CC63684.3010207@ece.gatech.edu>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:37:24AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>Permission to apply?
>
> AFAIAC, the setup.html is ok but I don't think that the generic-whatever
> stuff belongs on the web site. Maybe the ftp directory or the
> cygwin-apps repository is more appropriate.
I think generic-* are just as much "documentation" as they are
"resource"; so the reader should be able to click on a link(*) and
peruse them, without having to (a) fire up a different client and
"download" them, or (b) fire up cvs and check them out. That's just
needless extra work -- documentation is supposed to make things easier,
not more difficult; let's not create artificial barriers.
(*) even if it's
"ftp://some-random-mirror/path/cygwin/resources/generic-foo";.
--Chuck