On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-2] Hojtsy Gábor wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to change these now to be
>
> distributions/manual/pdf/...
> distributions/manual/chm/...
>
> As in the near future (I hope so), the folowing formats
> will also be there:
>
> distributions/manual/html/...
> distributions/manual/text/...
> distributions/manual/palm/...
>
> This way the formats wont make a big
> directory... Hope this can work :)
>
> What about the manual naming conventions,
> I tried to suggest earlier? Is it ok, to
> modify the _Makefile in phpdoc_, the
> _PDF generator_ and _CHM generator_
> scripts to output such files as:
>
> php_manual_$LANG.$FORMAT
>
> [See the whole list in my previous letter]
Yes, it would be good to get some opinions from the people administrating
the servers what would be a good strategy for naming files to avoid those
87 redirects Sascha mentioned about. It makes sysadmin work just hell to
remember what they are and why...
Latest PDF updates went with their previous names, mostly because I'm lazy
and it hopefully prevents the need to fix anything just now. Let's first
decide what to do.
About a big directory, there's at most only 11*11 (currently) in
distributions/manual, it's not much, and if we follow Gobas recommendation
about naming the files, I don't think it will be cluttered.
Another thing is the directories containing on-line html-manuals... that
could be split up to several subdirs. It's near reaching the limits what's
reasonable with ext2. Or does it reside on reiserfs?
-- Jouni
