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From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnats/263
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 08:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020101163955.00a34670@10.10.1.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87g05rufua.fsf@blackbird.zamazal.org>

At 00:31 01.01.02 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>To install and run GNATS you need a real machine available so this is no
>strong argument :-).

Well, some people (including me) have desktops that are non-UNIX and run 
GNATS on back-room servers with no X.

>First, the Postscript file included in the beta1 distribution tarball is
>a mistake, I haven't intended to include it.  I wanted to include only
>Info files.
>
>PDF, Postscript and HTML (this one as both tar.gz and an on-line manual)
>will be available from the GNATS web site (is it worth to create them
>already for beta1?).

I'd say we should try to create them for beta 1. I am planning to redo the 
GNATS web site next week (apart from the front page, which is fine), so I 
can create the PDF and publish it then.

>The reason for inclusion of Info files is that on-line documentation,
>unlike manuals intended basically for printing only, is a part of the
>standard software installation.

Good point, but I'd still recommend including a HTML version in the 
distribution itself, since a lot of people are more comfortable with 
browsing web pages than using Info.

>I don't think it's a good idea to provide something that can't be
>created with free tools.

I have opinions which probably differ quite a lot from yours in that area, 
but this isn't the forum for that kind of thing. Anyway, we don't need to 
worry too much about the size of the resulting file when we publish it as a 
separate download.

- Yngve


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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E16CIml-0002O4-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2001-10-29  5:47 ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2001-11-03  1:42   ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-13 10:18     ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-03 14:00   ` gnats/263 Yngve Svendsen
2001-12-30 17:25     ` gnats/263 Yngve Svendsen
2002-01-01  3:45     ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2002-01-01  8:00       ` Yngve Svendsen [this message]
2002-01-02 12:50         ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2002-01-17 19:14         ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-08 12:30   ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal

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