[GeneX-dev] Re: Curation Tool Release 1.0

[Lonny M. <lon...@st...>]

Hi Harry,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry J. Mangalam" <hj...@nc...>
To: "Lonny Montoya" <lon...@st...>
Cc: <gen...@nc...>; <gen...@so...>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Curation Tool Release 1.0


> Hey, Great!! - good job, Lonnie & Todd,
>
> one thing tho - what's the point of including the FrameMaker files?  Could
a
> user (or developer) actually use them for anything?  Would we want them
to?
>
> Only reason I ask is that they take up ~ 13MB of disk..
>

The reason for the framemaker files is that our(NCGR) people who maintain
the help screens use framemaker for this.  They needed (or at least wanted)
the original framemaker files to be able to make any changes to the help
screens in the future.  I think the framemaker files should be removed if
one of two things happen:

1) We decide not to maintain the help screens (which are terribly out of
date now anyway) internally.

2) Someone outside ncgr (yes, this is a solicitaion to any out there who is
interested) decides to update the help files using the html files directly
rather than frammaker.

Number two, of course would be preferred.

> Also, we should have a README for the 1.0 release in the download dir.
>
> Also, the typical thing for unix-type archives is to assume that they know
> how to unpack an tarball and have the instructions inside the tarball as a
> README.  If they can't do that, they probably shouldn't be playing with
this
> stuff anyway.
>

There used to be a README.txt inside the download directory.  We decided to
remove it for just the reason you mentioned here (and to make it a tiny bit
easier for us to post to the download directory).  We decided that expanding
a .tar.gz or an exe package is a no brainer.  The README.txt now appears at
the root level of the download package after they expand it, where we think
it belongs.

That said, I don't feel very strongly one way or the other and I don't think
anyone else does either.  We can put a copy in the download directory if
anyone thinks it is necessary.I

> ..ok - that was 3 things...
>
> Harry 'never satisfied' Mangalam
>
>

Lonny

>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Lonny Montoya wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > The Genex Curation Tool (Release 1.0) is now available for download on
the
> > Genex website:
> >
> > http://genex.ncgr.org/genex/download/curation_tool/
> >
> > This release has a few new features and several new bug fixes.  Please
try
> > the download and report any problems you may have installing or using it
to:
> >
> > gen...@nc...
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > Lonny Montoya
> > Genex Developer
> >
> >
>