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From:	"Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: [RFD]: Where to put the important README files?
Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:32:44 -0500
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> >> The question is now: Where to put that directory in the Cygwin
> >> directory tree?
> >>	
> >> Some suggestions:
> >>	
> >> 	/usr/doc
> >> 	/README
> >> 	/etc/FAQ
> >>	
> >
> >Or we could adopt a Linux mentality and put it in /usr/doc/HOWTO.
> >
> 
> The best place to put documentation is (imho) 
> /usr/doc/appname-version. 
> 
> Example: /usr/doc/bash-2.0.4
> 
> This is the place where most Linux-Distributions place the 
> documentation and it
> is also the default place where rpm puts the documentation 
> associated to a
> software-package.

I was hoping for an orthogonal location that would be *just* for Cygwin
specific files.  This would allow us to install all of the "standard"
documentation and have our own post-install README's in a discrete location.
Something like:

*	/usr/doc/Cygwin

as a base directory for our documentation.  Then later we could add:

*	/usr/doc/Cygwin/FAQ/*
*	/usr/doc/Cygwin/UserGuide/*
*	/usr/doc/Cygwin/API/*

Anyway, just pick a subdirectory for the crucial postinstallation files.
Perhaps PostInstall or README-1st since README-1st carries a little more
urgency in the users mind than the ever-ignored README.

Well that's my 2 cents/pfennigs/centimes/forints/centavos/etc. worth.

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