Re: Movement of FAQ's - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Movement of FAQ's
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4306AC7@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Movement of FAQ's  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Movement of FAQ's  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Re: Movement of FAQ's  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: 11 October 2004 16:03
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL www
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Movement of FAQ's
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > > Oh, no I didn't.  Would you like to make adjustments to it and/or
> > > FAQ_MINGW so they point to each other and don't duplicate
> > > information?
> >
> > I'm not entirely convinced that's the right answer. The
> main concern
> > is making things easy for the users - that's what I've tried to do
> > with the installer faq (which I now notice Magnus has been
> editting!)
> > by covering both installer specific stuff, and
> non-installer specific;
> > a kindof 1 stop shop for all Win32 faqs. I appreciate that we don't
> > necessarily want the installer stuff in the main tree however. What
> > about making the version in the tree a subset of our one, simply
> > covering the mingw/compiliation issues which I can include in one
> > standalone section in our faq?
>
> Both FAQ's are going to change over time, I am sure.  I see
> no problem in giving them a web link to the FAQ_MINGW for
> compilation issues.
> Having the Mingw outside our CVS doesn't make sense to me.

No, and I don't think it should be outside. What I would like to avoid
if possible though, is having win32 problems split across different
FAQs. Most end users won't care about whether something is a Mingw or
Installer issue and will just get frustrated if they cannot find the
info they need.

I guess the best answer might be to clearly mark the Mingw FAQ as a
diy-compilation FAQ, and include a link for 'normal' end users to the
installer FAQ in which we try to include all relevant q&a's.

Regards, Dave.

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