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Subject: Re: zipfiles
Date: 26 Feb 2004 12:27:53 GMT
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Tcrawshaw2 <tcrawshaw2 AT aol DOT com> wrote:

> this may sound weird but in the djgpp zipfiles why do there have to
> be so many different directories and sub-directories ?  

That, dear friend, is usually called "organization".  It helps to find
things once you have very many things you might want to find.

> In each zipfile why not just have ONE bin, doc, include, lib and
> so-on, and then as little as possible below that.

Because "as little as possible" is sometimes still more than you might
think.

> doc directory, especially, really should contain every bit of
> documentation no matter what type with no subdirectories.

A single directory with 1000+ files in it should be better than one
organized into subdirectories by package?  You must be kidding.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.