Message-Id: <200006071636.MAA25595@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm list-help: list-post: Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Parker, Ron" To: cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: [RFD]: Where to put the important README files? Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:32:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01BFD09E.7672ABE0" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01BFD09E.7672ABE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >> 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. 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