Re: avoiding a huge Cygwin patch

[Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>]

> > Is it acceptable to copy the
> > manuals in after creating the source patch, thereby excluding them from
> > the patch?
> 
> Yes.  You can add as many flags to the mkpatch() function as needed, e.g.
> -x 'additional-docs'
> when you put the documents intopp a directory called 'additional-docs'.
> Just make a note in the README where the documents are available, add
> the license for the docs (if different as the source licenses).

OK, that would work.  Is 'additional-docs' a standard place for this, or 
would something else like 'CYGWIN-EXTRAS' (easy to find next to 
CYGWIN-PATCHES) also be okay?

> Maybe the best way to handle this would be a separate package with the
> manuals and, if available, with the documents source in a src package.

I'll look into this.  Maybe more trouble than it's worth, or maybe not.

Thanks,
Andrew.