Harmonise Installs on the Various O/S Developer Setup Guides
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                 Key: MIFOS-5551
                 URL: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-5551
             Project: mifos
          Issue Type: Dev Task
          Components: Documentation
            Reporter: Sarah Farrier


I don't think this has been explicitly mentioned under any existing sub-tasks 
for the Documentation Sprint - I wanted to add something regarding the slightly 
inconsistent set-ups advised in the various developer guides, depending on 
which O/S guide you're using.

Three examples, off the top of my head:
1) Different install locations for Jetty ($HOME/jetty7/... vs. 
c:/jetty7/7.3.1.v20110307/...)
2) Different example git clone locations (/head vs. /mifostrunk)
3) Helpful tips included or missing on developer set-up guides (the Ubuntu 
guide missing the tip for 'mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true' to skip 
tests, whilst this is nicely highlighted in Andrew's Windows screencasts).

It may seem trivial at first, but I definitely think that consistency in demo 
set-ups would help new developers out more (hopefully for fairly low effort). 
Often, if example setups are as similar as possible between O/Ss, then new 
developers can  extract existing knowledge and quickly see how to adapt it to 
their current difficulty. A great example in my own case was knowing how to set 
up environmental variables in Windows but not knowing how to do the same task 
in Ubuntu before I started with Mifos.

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