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Re: cygwin-doc-1.1-1
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:21:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin-doc-1.1-1
> One thing that occurred to me is that we should probably, in the
> interest of disk space, be compressing the man and info pages with gzip
> (or even bzip2 if man/info support it), shouldn't we? That's what Red
> Hat and other distributions do.
I thought about this for about 1.5 seconds when I was messing with the
script to delete the /usr/man/catX/ pages. I'll look into it more to
see what would be required (if anything).
> I meant to ask if you would mind mentioning the fact that the "new"
> 1.3.12-3 cygwin release has only deleted the info files in favor of
> cygwin-doc when you send your message to cygwin-announce. I don't think
> it is worth sending another cygwin release announcement just for this since
> there were no other changes to the package.
Sure. I'll probably do the announcement sometime tomorrow.