That looks *excellent*. Short and to the point. Matt
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on the new "Installing PDL on Linux" page: > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_on_Linux > > Short thought it is, I think it already has all the relevant > information from all the Linux-related install pages. I am currently > experimenting with VirtualBox to see if I can improve the instructions > further. > > Daniel. > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure I explicitly gave a process to >>> delete pages within the wiki community effort: >> >> Well, that's comforting. I would like some clarifications though: >> >> >>> "Once the replacement is in place and checked out, >>> then the old pages are fully deprecated and may be >>> deleted." >> >> Do you necessarily expect the replacement page to have all the >> information from the old pages, old though it might be? >> >> The reason why I didn't feel you were giving a process to delete pages >> is because you said we should keep information from very outdated >> versions of Ubuntu in the off chance that they might help someone >> somewhere. So I want to have this clear. Do you oppose deleting >> information about ancient releases of Ubuntu? Do you oppose deleting >> information about small minority distributions such as Gentoo? >> >> In light of P.Kishor's efforts to update the Mac OS X page, I would >> like to modify my proposal to this: >> >> 1) Delete all the *Linux*-specific install pages and replace them with >> a single install page for all Linux. This page may have information >> about specific distributions if it seems appropriate. In fact, it >> could even be divided by distribution if that seems appropriate. >> >> 2) Delete the page titled "Installing PDL the quick and easy way". >> Instead, edit the wiki main page and put direct link to all the >> install pages on the wiki. Now there are only four: >> >> - Installing PDL on Linux. >> - Installing PDL on Windows. >> - Installing PDL on Mac OS X. >> - Installing PDL Manually. >> >> >> I hope you'll agree that this is much better organized than what we have >> today. >> >> >> I can volunteer to write the "Installing PDL on Linux" page, but it >> would be short. I would copy little content from the outdated Linux >> pages. >> >> How does that sound? >> >> Daniel. >> -- >> Intolerant people should be shot. >> > > > > -- > Intolerant people should be shot. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
