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Re: [ sisc-Feature Requests-783336 ] include docs in distribution: msg#00002

Subject: Re: [ sisc-Feature Requests-783336 ] include docs in distribution
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:30:01AM -0700, SourceForge.net wrote:
> Initial Comment:
> Currently, the web site docs only show the
> documentation for the latest stable release. Since no
> documentation is included in releases the only way for
> users of alpha, beta and rc releases to find out how to
> use all the new/changed features is by downloading the
> source distribution and building the docs themselves
> (which may not be at all straightforward, depending on
> the system setup).
> 
> We should include the documentation as part of the
> release and/or have multiple versions of the
> documentation on the web site.
> 

I'd prefer to just maintain a docs link on the website for each 
active version, and perhaps add a docs package to sf where we can 
archive them for each release.  Adding the docs to the dist 
unnecessarily bloats them by quite a lot even if we decide to use only 
the html version.

        Scott

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