Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:47:32 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1 In-Reply-To: <373DE0DA.A8D2E50C@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 May 1999, Richard Dawe wrote: > How many packages are really going to require scripts anyhow? It depends on how zippo is going to work. Almost every package, at least those from GNU, needs you to run install-info. If this is part of the scripts feature, then many packages will need it. > Maybe it would be better to provide a README file to be displayed > after installation? Our bitter experience is that READMEs don't solve problems for too many people. How many people would dismiss the README without reading it? Half? 80%? wanna bet? ;-) Btw, I think it's generally a good idea to display README *before* the installation. There are several cases where users need to make some decisions or prepare some infrastructure before they unzip. Perhaps this (i.e. whether the README is displayed before or after the installation) should be a part of the script specification; and maybe we need to allow for two parts of README, to be displayed bafore and after. I wonder who would actually go to the length of using all those fine features? ;-)