Hi Robert -- I'm updating the Quick Start Guide for 2.8, and this comment from you caught my eye:
> I would have thought that it's mainly Windows users that really > need binaries, given the hard time that they have with getting > all the dependencies together. The unix world has a bit of easy time > so packaging is less critical. This is just a broad sweeping > brush though... When the Quick Start Guide was being drafted in late '06 (approaching OSG 2.0), the consensus appeared to be that the Quick Start Guide should direct readers to download prepackaged binaries from the wiki. This makes sense, given that it's a "quick start". Should I now change the book to read, "download binaries for Windows, but build from source on other platforms"? This doesn't seem like a "quick start". Should the Quick Start Guide attempt to document how to build from source, or should I just direct readers to the wiki or a readme file? Build specifics seems to change fairly rapidly, so I'm reluctant to document it for a single snapshot in time. Assuming I direct readers to build from source and direct them to the wiki for instructions, this really simplifies the first chapter and will reduce the page count, making room for new material. -Paul _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
