I'm working on the new "Installing PDL on Linux" page: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_on_Linux
Short thought it is, I think it already has all the relevant information from all the Linux-related install pages. I am currently experimenting with VirtualBox to see if I can improve the instructions further. Daniel. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: >> I'm pretty sure I explicitly gave a process to >> delete pages within the wiki community effort: > > Well, that's comforting. I would like some clarifications though: > > >> "Once the replacement is in place and checked out, >> then the old pages are fully deprecated and may be >> deleted." > > Do you necessarily expect the replacement page to have all the > information from the old pages, old though it might be? > > The reason why I didn't feel you were giving a process to delete pages > is because you said we should keep information from very outdated > versions of Ubuntu in the off chance that they might help someone > somewhere. So I want to have this clear. Do you oppose deleting > information about ancient releases of Ubuntu? Do you oppose deleting > information about small minority distributions such as Gentoo? > > In light of P.Kishor's efforts to update the Mac OS X page, I would > like to modify my proposal to this: > > 1) Delete all the *Linux*-specific install pages and replace them with > a single install page for all Linux. This page may have information > about specific distributions if it seems appropriate. In fact, it > could even be divided by distribution if that seems appropriate. > > 2) Delete the page titled "Installing PDL the quick and easy way". > Instead, edit the wiki main page and put direct link to all the > install pages on the wiki. Now there are only four: > > - Installing PDL on Linux. > - Installing PDL on Windows. > - Installing PDL on Mac OS X. > - Installing PDL Manually. > > > I hope you'll agree that this is much better organized than what we have > today. > > > I can volunteer to write the "Installing PDL on Linux" page, but it > would be short. I would copy little content from the outdated Linux > pages. > > How does that sound? > > Daniel. > -- > Intolerant people should be shot. > -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
