On Apr 2, 2006, at 17:47, Robert Treat wrote:
ISTM that by any measure of the general population, David Wheeler is a
hard-core geek. :-) Actually by most measures of the "programming/
oss
community" he is a hard core geek. But he still got tripped up by
this. A
lot of people never get passed ./configure;make;make install even
though they
do a lot of coding on oss projects. Why turn these people away?
/me blushes
Maybe I am a hard-core OSS hacker, I'm just not a C hacker (and not
familiar with the OSS C distribution stuff). But I'd be happy to work
on a patch that creates a table like that described by Tom. I think
that would help folks like me (and even soft core OSS hackers ;-)) a
lot.
Cheers,
David
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