On 08-Mar-1999, Armando L. Caro Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Alexandru Harsanyi wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, I posted this mail a week ago but there was no response... I'm sending
> > it again, just in case you haven't noticed the previous one :)
> >
>
> >From what I have seen, this list has very poor participation. I have
> posted the same message a couple of times asking for installation help,
> and I still haven't heard any response. It has been over a month since I
> have tried, but I gave up trying to install it until I have more time to
> fool with it or until I get some help.
Unfortunately, most of the main developers are too busy to help (even
to work on the project) and most of the questions on this list are from
people who only want installation help. The rest of the people on this
list are largely watching from the sidelines, without the time to do
a successful build and see what must be done to fix it.
Most of the installation help questions have been answered before, I
think the overworked developers just see little point in answering them
again and again when they don't really have time to help anyway.
A large number of the installation problems are out of the control of
the gnucash developers anyway. They are either caused by bugs in
lesstif, bugs in gtk/gnome or people trying to install on old platforms
with old libraries.
What is really needed is some people who have the time to work on the
installation/build process and document how exactly they got it working.
Judging from your response, however, not even the people asking the
quesitons have the time to do this ;-)
--
The quantum sort:
while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); }
Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/
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