On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:09:08PM +0000, MikeW wrote:
> But that's why I suggested a Wiki - even one hosted somewhere else.

Go ahead.
 
> I can't see how it is a good use of your (and Robert's etc) time
> to (re)answer basic questions from new starters like me.

It keeps the ball running and gives you the warm and linty feeling that
someone cares for your problems.

> But having got past one hurdle, I seem to find another which leads me
> again to question the mailing list, when I know there must be other
> users of PTXdist who will have had the same problems and have solved them.

They have learned something during the process...

> My own preference in O-S projects is to document stuff if no-one else has
> done it, but that presupposes I can make reasonable progress on my own.
> 
> In the meantime, hope that my enquiries still get answered !

Have I missed something? I suppose all your problems must be solved in
the meantime.
 
> I feel that PTXdist is potentially a good system, but it is concealing
> its usefulness and power by a lack of docs, and that is a shame.

So please ask us stupid questions and add the results to the wiki,
proving me wrong in my assumption that wikis often are some kind of a
black hole which sucks in entropy.

Robert 
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