Re: TODO

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> version, but the distributors won't necessarily know which files these
> are. I would *hope* they at least think to install the demo files, but
> they may not know to first run 'make' in the demo directory to generate
> binary data files.

They don't have to --- running 'make' in the main directory is perfectly
sufficient.  If they don't know how to build a fully autoconf/automake
wrapped package like gnuplot, they're in the wrong business pretending to
be a Linux distributor anyway.

> The pm3d/contrib directory?  
> The old README.* files?
> The tutorial?
> ps_guide.ps?

If we want to give them a hand explaining them what we would like them
to put in their binary packages --- fine, add a paragraph to INSTALL
about that.  

OTOH, why should we expect them to put stuff in there that our
own 'make install' doesn't put up anywhere?

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.