On 2012-08-24, at 7:28 AM, Mark Tompsett wrote:
Greetings,
Right now. People are probably doing “less INSTALL.blah”. Less is standard. We’ve got a perl application being installed, so perldoc isn’t a far fetched expectation. As long as we get a format where people can easily “<program> <install file>” after a “sudo apt-get install <program>”, I don’t care. Particularly if there is a README.1ST file, or just a base INSTALL file, that tells people how to read the INSTALL files. But this begs the question: are we creating a meta-problem?
Additionally, the notion of converting the documents to a Wiki page makes me wonder if perhaps we have forgotten to ask the reason for having the install files.
Is the INSTALL.blah file supposed to be there as an offline version of the Wiki?
other way around, the wiki pages are built from the INSTALL.* files in the git repo
Should we split only by OS version?
yes, i think thats enough each INSTALL.* file contains the 2 [or 3] install methods (tarball, git, [packages]) INSTALL (a tiny file saying "please read the INSTALL file for your OS") INSTALL.Debian INSTALL.Ubuntu INSTALL.Fedora INSTALL.Centos INSTALL.Netbsd INSTALL.Openbsd INSTALL.WEB (for the web install, for all OS)