[pmwiki-users] Re: [O-T] Re: Re: Request for changing the default upload policy

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, H. Fox wrote:

> > PS. I can see that it might make things easier for Windows users who 
use
> > the file extension to control what type a file is.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> To some (ironically not including myself) the extension is important. 
> That's why I think it's helpful to include the extension.  Some users
> don't even see extensions -- they'll only see the icon that indicates
> it's a text file.  Double-click and it opens in the default text
> editor.
> 
> Omitting ".txt" erects an admittedly small barrier, but why have a
> barrier at all?

<silly>
Because it looks ugly, it's less to type and I'm used to the file just 
being called README ;-)
</silly>

> On 12/28/05, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
> <christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could for instance 'README', 'COPYING' and 'INSTALL' be merged into 
one
> > file that simply refers to a suitable wiki page? (It'd probably have 
to be
> > one per each new release).
> 
> For certain the GNU GPL license text should stand alone in its own file.

Hmm... could we use wiki.d/ as a sort of documentation library? And place
COPYING/LICENSE etc there (with the exception of a single README in the
root).

When you think about it, this is actually where we store the 
documentation today...

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr