And, I think, it maybe better to give many separated download packs, each
with one language docs.

kajaa

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From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:18 AM
Subject: don't distribute docs with source?


> Have we gotten to a point where the docs distribution should be
> distributed separately from the source distribution?
>
> Advantages:
> - Less bandwidth used for cvs checkouts and downloads since people get
> only what they want.
> - People can choose the particular format that they want:
> * pure xml
> * multi-language html to be viewed through the server
> * single-language html that can be viewed using just a browser
> * chm
> * pdf (?)
> - Don't need to keep generated files in cvs, since docs experts can
> generate docs releases.  (There is still a question about what to do for
> the web checkout, since generating files directly onto the live website is
> probably not a good idea.)
>
> Disadvantages:
> - May generate more bandwidth usage on httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/
> because people will be too lazy to download the docs.
> - May encourage coders to ignore the docs.
> - May be more complicated for end users.
>
> I don't have a very strong opinion on this, but we should probably think
> about it, since it would solve several of the problems we have been
> discussing.  Of course, any final decision would need to be discussed with
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well.
>
> Joshua.
>
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