And now for something completely boneheaded...

Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa warren at nightwares.com
Fri Sep 10 12:36:31 EDT 1999


"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Robert Kern wrote:
>  > Hmmm.  I think it may be time to reconsider the
>  > distribution/documentation split.
> 
> Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa writes:
>  > Sigh, no, it's not; all that information is included, in HTML form, in
>  > the "Doc" directory in the Win32 install.
> 
>   The split Robert is referring to doesn't exist for Windows users
> working from the binary installer.

Which 'splains much. I have not yet had the opportunity to look over the
*NIX release.

>   I still think the split is the right thing.  Most people don't
> *want* the LaTeX source or even the PostScript.

I'd have to agree -- I would want HTML on my Lin box too, or *maybe* a
pdf, but probably not even that.

Thanks for the amplification! :)

--WthmO




More information about the Python-list mailing list