William,

I believe that you problem is that you are not downloading from the
mirror locations that are supplied by T2 as I had the same problem a
while back when I was trying to build 7.0-rc2 (I am also using trunk
now). This is due to some packages either changing the location of the
source, or archiving the source as it is fairly old now.

I edited my Mirror-Cache file in the download folder to use the
T2-project mirror and that solved it for me some time ago.

You can get a full list of mirrors by using this URL

http://t2-project.org/cgi-bin/t2-mirrors.cgi?7.0-rc2

You can change the version after the ? for example for trunk use ?8.0

Regards

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: William Tracy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 23 October 2008 20:34
To: T2 developers mailing list
Subject: [t2] T2 download page


Hello,

The T2 download page (http://t2-project.org/download/) was frustrating
to me. If you want to build from source, it provides instructions for
downloading SVN Trunk, or for getting a tarball of a stable release.
This would imply to me that the tarballs are the preferred source for
creating a build of the stable version. However, none of the supplied
tarballs (including the most recent 7.0-rc2 version) build
successfully any more (the download stage of the build process fails).

It was only after some frustration that I realized that I probably
should have been pulling the stable version from an SVN branch, as is
explained in the Quick Build guide. Before I actually reached that
point, I gave up on the stable version and have actually been playing
with the version from SVN trunk instead.

So, my humble suggestion is that either the download page be updated
to recommend pulling the stable version from SVN, or that it be
removed entirely in favor of pointing new users directly to the Quick
Build guide.

It's not rocket science, and I did figure it out on my own, but I
wasted several days on broken builds first, which is not a fun
first-time user experience. >_<

Thanks for reading. From what I've seen so far, this looks like an
awesome project. :-)

-- 
William Tracy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group
http://www.cplug.org



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