> > That strikes me as an awfully web-centric view of things. Not everyone
> > has an always-on high-speed Internet link.
> >
> > If you want to make the docs and TODO.detail be a separate chunk of the
> > split distribution, that's fine with me. But I don't agree with
> > removing them from the full tarball.
> >
> > OTOH, if Marc was only thinking of removing the pre-built docs from the
> > tarball, I don't object to that. I'm not sure why those weren't
> > distributed as separate tarballs from the get-go. I just say that the
> > doc sources are part of the source distribution...
>
> But, why? That sounds like a highly DSL-centric view of things *grin* If
> someone really wants docs, what hurts a second GET ftp call?
A major issue is that we don't regenerate docs for 7.1.1 or later, so
the 7.1 docs carry for all the 7.1.X releases. That would seem to argue
for a separate tarball for docs so people don't redownload the docs
again for 7.1.1.
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