On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Tom Browder wrote:

> Would the following work, have three files:
> 
>   + a single README just for the download
>   + a zipped archive of the existing READMEs
>   + the VM

Does the VM have the READMEs inside of it?

If it does, it should be sufficient to tell them only what is needed at that 
time, namely instructions on how to obtain VirtualBox, the VM image, and steps 
to get it up-and-running.  That would go into a file (named 
RELEASE_NOTES_README.txt or *README* something, just so that sf.net 
automatically displays it).

With that, there'd only need to be one file to download -- namely the VM image 
-- since the instructions would get auto-displayed.

> The RELEASE-NOTES.txt has this:
> 
> The "*.ova" file in this directory is a Virtual Machine (VM) built and
> tested on a Windows 7 64-bit host of Oracle's VirtualBox (using
> version 4.1.10: http://virtualbox.org/).  The VM contains a turn-key
> BRL-CAD development environment.

I think that's the gist of what they need at that point, maybe with a little 
more specific or step-by-step detail.  I can write that up if you'd like.

Before they've downloaded the image, they don't really need instructions on 
things they'd do inside the VM image.  Hopefully those are files already inside 
the VM image anyways.

Cheers!
Sean


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