[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.104.0 Second Release Candidate is here!

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 14:42:06 +0000
> "Joel Esler via clamav-users" wrote:
>
>> I’m a fan of the thought of removing the user manual completely
>> from the downloaded packages and including a link to
>> docs.ClamAV.net.  Since that’s more dynamic.
>
> I think that's a bad idea for three reasons:
>
> First, the Website might be (temporarily) inaccessible.
>
> Second, the machine running ClamAV may be blocked from accessing the Internet ...
>
> Finally, if the documentation is "dynamic", it presumably is for the latest release ...

+1

I suspect most ClamAV installations are via packages for the various
distributions.  Please think about the distribution package managers.
If the documentation were not included in the release tarballs they'd
have a great deal more work to do, and the opportunities for errors
and confusion would be increased out of all proportion.

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73,
Ged.