Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 1997 17:44:06 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc:	galbiati AT cse DOT ogi DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many piece
In-Reply-To:	<97Jul5.154153gmt+0100.16644@internet01.amc.de>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970706174242.8624M-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:

> I'd like to see both README.* and an 
> INSTALL.TXT in all of the zip files.  The GNU source 
> distributions do this already.  The INSTALL.TXT need not be
> large, just a reminder of using -d on PKUNZIP and where
> to install it (for instance the code DJGPP stuff needs to be
> in the DJGPP root directory while some other things like sources
> can be anywhere).

The DJGPP-specific installation instructions are in the README.* files
inside each distribution.  There is no reason IMHO to put TWO files
where one should be enough (if only people would read it).

Please also don't underestimate the amount of effort it takes to
produce detailed installation instructions.  It usually takes me
between 2 and 7 days to get them right, and that's after the
ported package already works!  So I can easily understand others who
provide slightly less detailed instructions: it's just too damn hard.

Btw, the file INSTALL inside GNU packages is no good example for our
case: it includes generic instructions which seldom ever have any
package-specific info, since GNU uses a standard configurate/build
procedure where everything is handled automagically by the configure
script and the Makefiles; in particular, the directories where
auxiliary files are installed are computed by the build procedure and
built into the binaries as the defaults.  By contrast, on MS-DOS,
people usually prefer to download pre-compiled binaries, so this trick
won't work (even if every DJGPP user would have all the smart tools
like Bash installed on their machines).

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