Yea I was going to trash the website copy of instructions. It's too much of a pita to maintain separately.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 1/4/2016 5:14 AM, David Godfrey wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, Maciej >> >> On 04/01/16 17:47, Maciej Sumiński wrote: >>> Hi Tom, >> >>> Thank you for noticing, a pull request to correct this has already been >>> sent. >> >>> BTW: I have just noticed we keep two documents describing the compiling >>> process - on the website and in the source repository >>> (Documentation/development/compiling.md). How about getting rid of the >>> latter one? >> Could I argue against removing the doc in the source. >> If I need to work out how to compile something, I always use local docs >> from the repository at (in theory) they should be correct for that exact >> version of source. >> >> On the other hand, a version of the doc kept on a website is very likely >> not correct for that version of source. >> It can only present a single method that is correct for a given version. >> (unless you want to complicate it with lots of [do this for ver:X but >> not ver:Y] statements. >> As (using git) I could decide to install branch "master" or go back in >> time and install branch "0.6" it is likely that the web instructions >> will be wrong for one or both methods, while the docs in the source tree >> should be correct or close to correct at least. >> >> Regards >> David G > > I would prefer that we maintain the compiling instructions as part of > the developers documentation. @David's argument about version control > is valid. As developers, we need to do a better job of keeping this up > to date as the project changes. A better solution might be to link the > compiling instructions in the developer's documentation on the website > rather than maintain two separate versions. The developers docs get > rebuilt every commit so they should always be up to date. This would > probably work because the website only needs the current build instructions. > >> >>> Regards, >>> Orson >> >>> On 12/30/2015 07:42 PM, Tom Andrews wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Just a quick one for the website, under the Linux build from source page, >>>> the dependencies are missing packages: libglm-dev and >> libcurl4-openssl-dev >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Tom >> >> >> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mark _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
