[RFD]: Where to put the important README files?
Parker, Ron
rdparker@butlermfg.com
Wed Jun 7 09:36:00 GMT 2000
> >> 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.
Well that's my 2 cents/pfennigs/centimes/forints/centavos/etc. worth.
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