I have raised those issues, My point is  until such time as core is free of
these issues, and is stable for a long enough period to establish that it
is mature enough to be the sole product, which right now I never suggest
core to a new user, means that compat, a tested fairly easy to use and
stable platform should not be abandoned.

On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  OMG... such issues must be discussed and resolved, no matter if compat is
> to be deprecated or not.
>
> Il 01/06/2014 23:44, John ha scritto:
>
> Im the same way, Ive tried setting up core half a dozen times in the last
> 18 months and each time within 5 minutes Ive run into critical issues that
> make running it non-feasible
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Andre Engels <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>          To me, the actual functionality of core is zero. I have tried
>> to install it three or four times, and failed every time. Just to check
>> again, I did another attempt. First, trying to download and run compat:
>>
>>  download compat
>>  try to run
>>  answer a number of questions that auto-create a user-config.py
>>  ready
>>
>>  Now core:
>>  download core
>>  read INSTALL
>>  try 'python setup.py install'
>>  ** 'Python is not recognized as a command'
>>  ok, we're running window, so 'setup.py install' instead
>>  ** something is downloaded, all kind of files are being copied
>>  ** error: Setup script exited with error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
>>  Check the internet (Stack Overflow) and see that it means that the setup
>> program assumes that Visual Studio is installed
>>  Check the internet for a download for Visual Studio
>>  ** Not free, just a 90 day free trial
>>  Say blergh and give up
>>
>>  André
>>
>
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