Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 2.1.6 beta 2 released
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:32:06 -0800 Alan Batie alan@batie.org wrote:
Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
- Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
This is *not* a positive move.
I'll mildly disagree if the installation ball includes either
a text or HTML version of the same data (easy enough produce via standard TeX commands)
a Makefile which runs the appropriate tetex commands to produce either of the above
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:18:28PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
- Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
This is *not* a positive move.
I'll mildly disagree if the installation ball includes either
a text or HTML version of the same data (easy enough produce via standard TeX commands)
a Makefile which runs the appropriate tetex commands to produce either of the above
Admittedly worst-case scenario, but if you're in someone's machine room installing this because they're so paranoid that they won't let you shell in (even ssh), then the machine may also not have enough build environment on it to convert the HTML or latex to text.
If it's "so easy" to convert it, then it should be done when packaging, not when extracting. You know (and can control) what your packaging environment is, but there will be so many different extraction/installation environments that I think the best bet is to target the least common denominator for the install document itself: plain text.
Regards, Msquared...
So, because I updated from cvs a long time ago, then got distracted (becoming management makes it difficult to be useful sometimes, ya know?) I'm running 2.2a0... How much of a pain will "downgrading" to 2.1.6b2 be? I know update is gonna pitch a fit, but will it do the right thing?
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:07, Ron Jarrell wrote:
So, because I updated from cvs a long time ago, then got distracted (becoming management makes it difficult to be useful sometimes, ya know?) I'm running 2.2a0... How much of a pain will "downgrading" to 2.1.6b2 be? I know update is gonna pitch a fit, but will it do the right thing?
Probably, because what lives on the head is really older than what lives on the branch. Make backups. :)
-Barry
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