Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 00:11:04 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <19990516001104.14304@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>; from Greg Black on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:31:46PM %2B1000 References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515053146.27873.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
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On 1999-05-15 15:31:46 +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > Migrate to a new directory structure that follows this layout; > > doc/ > > <lang>/ > > <charset>/ > > articles/ > > fonts/ > > ... > > books/ > > FAQ/ > > FDP-primer/ > > printing/ > > ... > > man/ > > ... > > share/ > > sgml/ > > share/ > > ... > > share/ > > sgml/ > > ... > > mk/ > > ... > > Speaking from the perspective of somebody who is new to FreeBSD > (but who expects to be here for the long haul), I find a problem > with the distinction between "articles" and "books" -- as I read > the proposal, the only distinction between these directories is > that "books" are longer. > > To me, this is an artificial distinction. If all the "books" > and "articles" are a similar set of documents -- some longer and > some shorter, some more tutorial and some less so -- then surely > they could all live in one directory as this would make the task > of finding the document that you wanted much simpler. Good point. > I quite understand the intention behind this reorganisation, but > I fear that it may go too far in complexity if the "articles" > and "books" distinction is retained. Of course, the underlying > issue may be that there are too many entries to work well in a > single directory. If that is the case, then surely it would be > better to divide it up by some kind of topic-based plan. Agreed. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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