On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > Is it acceptable to copy the
> > > manuals in after creating the source patch, thereby excluding them from
> > > the patch?
> >
> > Yes. You can add as many flags to the mkpatch() function as needed,
> > e.g. -x 'additional-docs' when you put the documents intopp a
> > directory called 'additional-docs'. Just make a note in the README
> > where the documents are available, add the license for the docs (if
> > different as the source licenses).
>
> OK, that would work. Is 'additional-docs' a standard place for this, or
> would something else like 'CYGWIN-EXTRAS' (easy to find next to
> CYGWIN-PATCHES) also be okay?
>
> > Maybe the best way to handle this would be a separate package with the
> > manuals and, if available, with the documents source in a src package.
>
> I'll look into this. Maybe more trouble than it's worth, or maybe not.
Actually, I think it might even be less trouble to create a separate docs
package than to try cramming extra binary files into the unison one, but
it's really up to you.
Igor
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