Hi, Thomas Keller wrote: >> I was thinking we should split INSTALL into separate files >> (INSTALL.windows_mingw, etc), but let's see how big it gets first.
+1 That's what I'm often seeing for other projects and I think it works well. > INSTALL really became somewhat of a monster in 0.43. I've actually never > seen a project which put all these distro-specific package names and > setup procedures in an INSTALL file - but rather on some website / wiki. Please *not* a website or wiki. The build instructions should be part of the source tarball, IMO. > On the other hand having very detailed installation instructions > especially for 0.43, the first unbundled release, will probably > overweight someone's disability to search for the contents he needs - > maybe we decide in a later version to shrink down the contents of > INSTALL, or split the files up even. I wouldn't do that for the upcoming > release though. Splitting into OS specific files (instead of sections in INSTALL) doesn't necessarily mean shrinking docu. I think we rather have to organize it better. Regards Markus Wanner _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
