On 17 Jun 2002 13:32:56 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to provide some additional information. The > > > config summary should fit on a single screen, but it won't with > > > all the new text. How about putting a note at the end of the > > > summary: > > > > > > For a full explanation of above options, run > > > ./configure --help-summary > > > > > > and dump the full descriptions with the --help-summary option? > > > > No, it should say, "See INSTALL.fvwm for the full option description". > > Hm. This is technically correct, but I'm not sure it would be > very helpful. You see, what I'm concerned about is providing the > necessary information that users don't have to ask "Do I need > xyz?" - and provide it in the most comfortable way. Many people > (including me) don't like to browse through all the documentation. > I'm not even sure myself what's in the INSTALL.fvwm file. And > finally, if the information is in a separate file, we have to > maintain that file too. Until now I've never even thought about > updating INSTALL.fvwm myself.
You don't need to, it is maintained by me and Olivier. INSTALL.fvwm contains the fully up-to-date information about all existing configure options and all supported features. If you can explain it better that it is explained in INSTALL.fvwm, please do. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
