Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@piwo.bl.pg.gda.pl>]

> Take good care with documenting it all. The major disadvantage of an
> install script is that it does everything without the user having a clue
> about what's going on. In the end you have a huge unix filesystem and no
> idea what it does, so it should be very clear to the user (where to find
> out) what it's all about. In the ideal case, it can be installed without
> any mint/unix knowledge (which kemd would be as well, if it would run
> without probs), but after that, the user should be left with a document
> structure that starts at a simple level and makes it easy to find out
> specialised stuff.
> 
> The current documentation is very thorough, but still most of the manpages
> are only understandable if you already understood half of them, plus you
> have no idea where to start. Well a .hyp file on how to use man would be a
> nice start :)

Yeah, thatt's great idea, indeed. I remember my blind walkings across the
MiNT filesystem while I was wondering what the hell everything this is
for. Such a doc would be quite useful without any doubt. I think you
should do it, Maurits ;)

Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
mail:draco@bl.pg.gda.pl
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/

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