Colin and Pat, I recognize the difficulty. I think leaving the files out of the install package is the correct thing to do. I also think that you are correct in not having two versions of the installer. I guess I can think of two potential options.
1. If the installer is smart enough (I don't know what capabilities it actually has), it can check to see if the inc files exist during the install. If not, then it's a new install and can drop the files where they belong. If they don't exist, then it's an upgrade and copying the files can either be skipped, or dropped with a different name about.inc.example and records.inc.example perhaps. I'm thinking about people (like me, for example :-) ) who aren't competent in writing html code). 2. If the installer can't make those checks, then either publish rudimentary sample html text for each file right in the README.md file or just put links in the README.md file to external files stored in GitHub but not in the archive file. By the way, I appreciate how much work Pat has put into developing this and the responsiveness to folks posting to this thread is just awesome. Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.