I've just tried installing 2.4.1, and I've got a few suggestions for
packaging.
1. Put a plain-text version of readme.html in README, automatically
generated from readme.html (or whatever), as part of the src-dist
build process. I always hate it when I visit a README, and it says,
"You fool! You should be looking at doc/documentation/readme.html!"
2. Ditto for the INSTALL file.
3. Oh, and by the way, looking at readme.html is tough. The string
"doc/documentation/readme.html" will almost always be read as just
"documentation/readme.html". I'd suggest calling that directory
"doc/dist", or some such, instead of "doc/documentation".
4. If there's a top-level "build.xml" file, lots of users (me, too :-)
will think that they can just type "ant" to build the package. That
should either "just work", or you should rename the build.xml file
to something less obvious, like "to-be-invoked-by-the-Makefile.xml".
5. Get rid of editing the Makefile, if you can. Would you like me to
write an autoconf script for this?
Bill
