Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <099a01c1a071$7fab83e0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: References: <3C459986.11997.3ED51D7@localhost> <3C472896.4115.5E0EEA@localhost> <3C486BE7.A6290F1F@crosswinds.net> <20020118194113.GC28692@redhat.com> Subject: Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation? Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:43:06 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jan 2002 22:45:06.0370 (UTC) FILETIME=[C66A7A20:01C1A071] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" > The solution is basically what any twelve year old would provide with if > you described problem to them. And the twelve year old's solution would > be the correct one -- setup.exe should produce /usr/info/dir. And we have a solution - for package creators - in http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents - which states "If you have any 'info' documention in your package, run install-info as part of your post-install script" Thats what got me annoyed. The solution has been discussed, put into policy and should not affect any newbies ever again. This is a better solution than setup.exe special casing info files, because as described here http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#postinstall packages can do any special case installation that make install might do - without requiring users to grab a new setup.exe to get the correct behaviour. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/