Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 13:32 +0200 schrieb Kai Sterker: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Chris Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A step-by-step document on how to build the whole thing would help > > new users to get started, help new programmers understand the dependencies, > > and help experienced developers see places the process could be improved. > > This would be a first step. Anyone volunteering for something like > that? While I could possibly write something up, I'm not sure I'd > catch all the little pitfalls that somebody not as familiar with the > whole thing would stumble into.
Already done: http://adonthell.berlios.de/doc/index.php/Development:QuickStart However, it turned out, the adonthell-documentation I found in the wiki was rather complete. Maybe, this guide could help getting the info faster. > > > > I would add that the build process is part of the code, and needs to be > > tested during development too. > > That's true too. After all, we're going to leave binary releases to > the various distributions, so the source should come with a fairly > well tested, standard build system, such as configure/make or (to a > lesser degree) cmake. > > > Nonetheless I'd be the least to vote against something that would make > life for developers easier. Documentation is a first step and I would > invite anyone to improve what is currently there > (http://adonthell.berlios.de/doc/index.php/Development:Getting_Started) > or at least leave comments on the talk pages. > > A second step could be said script to prepare the environment so stuff > can be started right out of the source/build tree. Well, this is something I have not done yet. The issue with the superuser is forced to install the software is still open. I am not sure wether I could solve it with a shell script. For the sake of lazyness I let it be for the moment. > > Any further suggestions are welcome too, although I'd say the two > steps above should address most of the issues. I tried test/worldtest -g ../adonthell/test/ but got only a black screen, is the software still broken? (checkout at friday 2008/10/17 - 01:01 am) Best regards, Enrico _______________________________________________ Adonthell-devel mailing list Adonthell-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/adonthell-devel