Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)

[David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>]

Stein Gjoen wrote:
> 
> Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> "S" == Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net> writes:
> >
> >     S> I suggest we comply with the standards : /usr/share/doc/HOWTO
> >
> > Agreed.   And doc/FAQ and doc/GUIDES, but doc/HOWTO/mini
> 
> I was under the impression that we were going to remove the
> distinction between HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs. Why then keep that
> old sub directory? Now that ./doc is positioned below ./share
> I would have thought this is an excellent opportunity to remove
> old cruft.
> 
> At the same time we should try to decide on the place for
> other formats. A suggestion to star the ball rolling
> 
> /
>   usr
>     share
>        HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
>          ascii   - same HOWTOS but as plain text
>          PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
>          PostScript
>          SGML
>        GUIDES    - the Guides in HTML format
>          ascii
>          PDF
>          PostScript
>          SGML

I would prefer "text" to "ascii" on the grounds that the meaning is more
apparent to computer neophytes, without any corresponding loss of
precision. And, I would add "HTML", yielding:

/
  usr
    share
       HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
         text    - same HOWTOS but as plain text
         PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
         PostScript
         SGML
         HTML
       GUIDES    - the Guides in HTML format
         text
         PDF
         PostScript
         SGML
         HTML


-- 
David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
dcmerrill@mindspring.com


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