Sender: crough45 AT amc DOT de
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:26:44 +0100
From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A Suggestion
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <97Apr9.102400gmt+0100.21891@internet01.amc.de>


Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

> oh my god! no! i meant to use texinfo which converts texi to inf format. 
> if getting the documentation implied building the package, i would 
> certainly never have suggested that. 

I didn't mean building the entire program, but building the
documentation
which is bad enough.  Especially when I have to read the documentation
which tells me how to build the documentation so that I can read it...

I feel that way as a programmer who's reasonably used to Unix tools,
I can only guess how someone feels if it's their first C compiler.  One
reason why I support the idea of an install program as recently
announced
here, I'm unlikely to need it but I'm aware that there are many people
who don't want to go through the hassle of working out where to put 
things, they just want to type A:INSTALL (or whatever) and come back
when
it's all finished (and that's not a criticism, just an observation; I
do the same with many other areas of life).

Chris