Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] I've updated the "Ethereal User's Guide"

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:35:15 -0500
Ulf Lamping wrote:

> After more than a week of *very hard* work (I don't like writing
> documentation), I've finished a reviewable state of an updated Ethereal
> User's Guide!

Cool!


> I'm currently thinking about where the files should reside in CVS, because:
> -as *all* filenames changed (.sgml to .xml and .jpg to .png) compared to
> the current ethereal-doc, it doesn't matter to put it to a different
> place than before

I suppose we could convert ethereal-doc from CVS to Subversion.
Moving/renaming wouldn't be such a big deal, then.  (I'm not sure I've
mentioned this on ethereal-dev yet, but we might move to Subversion in
the not-too-distant future).


> What about checking the files into the main Ethereal CVS tree? It might
> be an idea to put them into the help dir of the program, so we can
> remove the currently existing files in that dir later, when we have on
> online help system based on HTML.
> 
> What do others think?

I can't think of a good reason not to.