egcs-1.1.2 prerelease #2

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> In our wwwdocs repository and on the web the directory is called
>> "install", while when shipped with releases we call it "INSTALL".
> Maybe the better thing to do is rework the web pages so that they use
> "INSTALL" isntead of "install" -- I'd prefer to avoid unnecessary sed-ing
> for releases.  The more closely those bits in the cvs tree match what we
> want to ship with releases, the better.

I agree that sed-ing should be avoided where possible.

> Objections?

Hmm, in general we don't use all-uppercase strings as part of URLs and
personally I prefer the lower-case versions as well, but neither is a real
reason not to go with "INSTALL".

However, note that we just have shipped egcs 1.1.2 with the following in
INSTALL/index.html:

  <p>The latest version of this document is always available at <a href="
  http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/ "> http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/ </a>.


So what do you think about the following?

We include the installation notes for the release as "install" and add a
short text file "INSTALL" explaining where to look for these installation
notes.

No sed-ing nor changes to wwwdocs will be needed and it will even be an
improvement, in that currently we do not provide any information about
_which_ of those files in "INSTALL" one should start with!

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/