Re: [E-devel] Re: [e-users] e17 compilation failed

[Arlo]

Regardless, people seem to be attracted to enlightenment and tend to try 
compiling it even if the software isn't ready; besides there's no reason 
they shouldn't try compiling enlightenment if they really really want 
to.  It's a good learning experience, just as long as they don't plague 
the developers with questions.  Hence my idea that we might look at 
creating some more specific compilation documentation for the complete 
newbie.  The slashdot posting really won't help either in terms of 
premature users. 

We ought to maintain a page listing current distro specific solutions.
For example:
Gentoo Users:
EFL packages are already in the portage tree and maintained by Vapier.
For current cvs use the -9999.ebuild(s) (hardmasked), other packages are 
not quite up-to-date as things are still changing.
To unmask the -9999.ebuild(s) edit /etc/portage/package.keywords
Enter each package line, e.g.
x11-libs/ecore -*
x11-libs/evas -*
...
...
To update a package, simply re-emerge it: 'emerge evas'

These kinds of documents could be submitted into the cms (drupal) if it 
ever gets running officially.  Otherwise people could submit a few 
patches for the website to the devs.
Anyhow, my 2 cents.

-Arlo
Peter Hyman wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:07 -0500, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
 

Hm... but isn't it explicitly stated (somewhere, don't remember where) 
that they don't want people downloading e17 until a beta is released 
unless they plan on helping out?

Jeremy
   

Actually, it was a warning not to complain about compile errors (the
maintainers don't look kindly on it). Best approach is either fix the
scripts or wait a few hours and try again.
 


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