Lyle Kempler wrote: > Looking at get-e.org, the download page points to the E17 User's Guide, > which starts with "Installing from CVS". If we instead changed the > download page to "download this script and run it, you'll need wget and > tar and bzip2 and ..", then new users could convert over without even > having to concern themselves about CVS. If the script had the ability to > download only a portion of the tree -- say, "minimal" vs "gadgets" vs > "full", etc -- that might also increase everyone's milage. I think a lot > of this is people just get everything because they're not familar enough > to know what they need or what might be cool (of course this all goes > back to packaging, no official recent releases.. etc). The script could > even check dependencies (which may lower the number of questions we > get). IIRC, someone may have even proposed this a long time ago.. >
so these scripts would build all EFL & some set of applications (who decides what applications?). Of course we are assuming that these all build without issue, as in "alice in wonderland". I have no trust in scripts for the entire build process when we are talking about pre-alpha software. > IMO (and it's a somewhat uninformed one as of late), most users > want access to "product" and the obstacles to installation send them > looking to anoncvs. You have taken a poll of what all users want? Some of us (users) are trying to contribute by staying close to the development by building, from scratch, on the various Linux O/S flavors to quickly surface issues. The hope is that it aids the cause. Admittedly, perhaps we are not your eventual std end users. Eventually, when e17 is released I will be working with rpm's on this Fedora Core system. For now I build from scratch. > > I'd like to believe that, though instant access to changes is alluring, > (just look at news sites).. :) > For me, I consider it more than alluring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
