Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 21:22:39 -0400
Message-Id: <199704090122.VAA17040@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970408001152.3779A-100000@aditya.unigoa.ernet.in>
	(grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in)
Subject: Re: A Suggestion.


> 		i have a small suggestion for the consideration of this 
> group: would it be possible to include the texinfo sources of the 
> documentation of a package with the binaries. for example the file 
> flex.texi could be added to flex254b.zip _as well as_ flex254s.zip. this 
> would be convenient for those of us who might not want to build a package 
> from the sources, but might like a printed version of the documentation. 

They're usually at least as big as the info files, and rarely used.  I
don't think they're worth it, and they'd slow down everyone else's
downloads.  I certainly don't want to replicate them into multiple zip
files.

> currently i find myself downloading large source distributions on a 
> creaky link only for the *.texi components :( 

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/

Use the "See what's inside the zip files" section.