On 5/19/2010 7:26 PM, Douglas Hubler wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Alfred Campbell<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> I think what you maybe getting at is we should probably better document
>> the EDE steps so people don't need to reverse engineer scripts?
>>      
> Not really, My point is that there are 2 areas that better suited for
> a lot of the effort that was put into EDE such as  autoconf and config
> check scripts.  The remaining can go into documentation on the wiki
> not about EDE but about what commands someone would need to run in
> their terminal.  When the commands are presented like that, folks can
> adapt according to their environment. The sheer presence of something
> like EDE misleads developers into thinking if I put some code in here
> that works on my system, my obligation to release management is done.
>
>  From my recent experiences having found out only in at runtime that
> there were parts of the system that were not setup correctly and the
> system had plenty of opportunity to check for me seems unfortunate.
>
> I'm currently training a group of potential developers on suse about
> how to setup their environment and we're hitting an embarrassing
> amount of issues that were solved for CentOS in EDE.  I can contribute
> code to autoconf and config checks myself, but I was more attempting
> to get any ongoing effort pointed in a better served direction IMHO.
>    

Sounds like documentation of development environment is not adequate.. 
Not going to gripe about EDE as I know it has saved our folks lots of 
time. Will see what can be added on the DE not EDE :)

Al
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