[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Irritatingly long file names

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:52:57AM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> Neither are as explanatory as README.coding_style, I'm afraid. But why add
> README, anyway? It is not like it is something ordinary players should
> read (which is implied by "README"). Could just call it CODING_STYLE.

Fine.

> It is better, but I don't really like to prefix it with README. Perhaps we
> can create a new directory docs/ for documents that only programmers are
> meant to read?

This is a slippery slope; at one point you want to use HTML, then a better
format like Docbook or doxygen or whatever, then images, then people
complain their downloads are huge, etc.  Why not just put it on the web!
We can always make a tar.gz of that part of the website available for those
who want to have it available offline.

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Reinier