From 3b08042a4e51553efe982ef6c3113a17fb955dbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 14:02:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove README.windows.

It was a placeholder that pointed people at the download page and the
documentation page. There are plenty of references to those elsewhere.
---
 CMakeLists.txt                    |  2 +-
 INSTALL                           |  3 ++-
 README.windows                    | 23 -----------------------
 packaging/nsis/wireshark.nsi      |  1 -
 packaging/wix/ComponentGroups.wxi |  4 ----
 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 README.windows

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6a7906dd61..57e010ec5c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2365,7 +2365,7 @@ endif()
 set(copy_data_files_depends)
 
 if(WIN32)
-	foreach(_install_as_txt_file COPYING NEWS README.md README.windows)
+	foreach(_install_as_txt_file COPYING NEWS README.md)
 		# On Windows, install some files with a .txt extension so that they're
 		# double-clickable.
 		string(REGEX REPLACE ".md$" "" _no_md_file ${_install_as_txt_file})
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index db058a3b10..3f91b3af20 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Installation
 
 These are installation instructions for Unix and Unix-like systems.
 These are not the installation instructions for Windows systems; see
-README.windows for those instructions.
+the Wireshark User's Guide and Wireshark Developer's Guide at
+https://www.wireshark.org/docs/ for those.
 
 0. This is software.  Beware.
 
diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d64f0eae3..0000000000
--- a/README.windows
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Installing Wireshark on Windows
-===============================
-
-To install Wireshark, simply download the appropriate installer program from
-
-https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
-
-and start it. Just keep the default settings and start Wireshark after the
-installation finished (e.g. using the start menu entry).
-
-For detailed descriptions on how to install and use Wireshark and the
-related command line tools, see the Wireshark User's Guide at:
-
-https://www.wireshark.org/docs/
-
-
-Compiling the Wireshark distribution from source
-================================================
-
-If you want to develop Wireshark code yourself, you can find
-comprehensive information in the Developer's Guide at:
-
-https://www.wireshark.org/docs/
diff --git a/packaging/nsis/wireshark.nsi b/packaging/nsis/wireshark.nsi
index 60af9c4ac0..75c104117b 100644
--- a/packaging/nsis/wireshark.nsi
+++ b/packaging/nsis/wireshark.nsi
@@ -540,7 +540,6 @@ File "${STAGING_DIR}\libwsutil.dll"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\COPYING.txt"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\NEWS.txt"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\README.txt"
-File "${STAGING_DIR}\README.windows.txt"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\wka"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\pdml2html.xsl"
 File "${STAGING_DIR}\ws.css"
diff --git a/packaging/wix/ComponentGroups.wxi b/packaging/wix/ComponentGroups.wxi
index 2a6d2875a0..b122e675ce 100644
--- a/packaging/wix/ComponentGroups.wxi
+++ b/packaging/wix/ComponentGroups.wxi
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@
         <Component Id="cmpREADME_txt" Guid="*">
           <File Id="filREADME_txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.Staging.Dir)\README.txt" />
         </Component>
-        <Component Id="cmpREADME_windows_txt" Guid="*">
-          <File Id="filREADME_windows_txt" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.Staging.Dir)\README.windows.txt" />
-        </Component>
         <Component Id="cmpWka" Guid="*">
           <File Id="filWka" KeyPath="yes" Source="$(var.Staging.Dir)\wka" />
         </Component>
@@ -79,7 +76,6 @@
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpCOPYING_txt" />
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpNEWS_txt" />
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpREADME_txt" />
-        <ComponentRef Id="cmpREADME_windows_txt" />
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpWka" />
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpPdml2html_xsl" />
         <ComponentRef Id="cmpWs_css" />