Hi Christian,
i really don't understand what your problem is. Maybe you missed the
goal of Per's work, it is simply the consolidation of several different
pages into one new place, put some structure on it and extend or improve
it where necessary. From my point of view structure is always good and
the documentation project did a good job here. So why not using the same
technique in other places. Call it guide, book or whatever. In the end
you don't have to read it all, you will be guide to the pages you need.
And i think you look on it with the wrong glasses. You are very familiar
with all this stuff and it's clear for you as well as for others. Great
you can read configure but many others not. But they maybe want to build
OOo on their own because they can C++. And they are maybe able to fix
some issues, are able to create patches (with the right instruction),
etc. etc.
The work Per is doing is not for the developers we already have it is
probably more for new ones. We should support this effort with the
knowledge we have and make it a valuable resource for new developers.
The only place we have to maintain for future changes, improvements in
this area.
Juergen
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi Marcin, *,
2009/7/16 Marcin Miłkowski <milek...@o2.pl>:
Christian Lohmaier pisze:
I still disagree. Basically /all/ of the questions asken on IRC about
building OOo were because people are unable to read configure or
because they don't use vanilla build system. Most of those didn't
bother to read any instructions, didn't look for instructions.
I could reply that probably using IRC is eating their brains ;) as most
questions asked at dev seem to be quite different.
Those questions will not be answered by a building OOo for newbies guide.
The one I remember fall into the not using vanilla OOo/not taking
advice given category.
The other ones were build breakers are introduced (already built
successfully in the past, newer milestone breaks). System components
change in a incompatible way. Nothing that could be covered in a
simple guide. (but rather are bugs in the code)
[...] Linux build was strangely broken).
Those even less.
To get this straight:
I'm /not/ against consolidating the pages, au contraire, I support
getting rid of old pages.
But:
I am against yet another place (instead of reusing the existing pages)
I am against the structure as it appears now
I doubt that the new documentation will cause less questions.
I'm speaking for myself only, and of course don't tell anybody to stop
with the efforts.
ciao
Christian
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