Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Rick Thomas wrote: I guess it's really up to the installer team, though, what they'll allow. Stew Benedict So... How do we write to the installer team to let them know (in a friendly way) that PPC users are paying customers and need architecture specific help files, just like the x86 users? The installer team monitors [EMAIL PROTECTED] As things stand at the moment, the PPC installer is not quite in sync with the main one, for various reasons. When a new iteration starts I generally try to sync back up, but at some point I usually again deviate because it just becomes too time consuming to try to keep up with the installer team and get the thing to build/work on PPC. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Rick Thomas wrote: Stew, The tutorial is great (even excellent) and very helpful, but the online help is there-when-you-need-it. Either way, if it's x86 specific and I'm installing on a PPC, it's just frustrating, not helpful. My vote goes for putting the PPC stuff in both places (of course, I don't have to do the work! (;) ) Is there any way we can be of assistance here? I agree, right on the screen is the best, I know myself, I don't look at documentation/manuals until I'm stuck. The problem is there's more to it than just adding the text in the installer. That same text feeds manuals etc. (of which there are none on PPC), so they don't want PPC stuff in there confusing the issue on the x86 side. Also, translators work on all that text to get it presentable in other languages. I suppose the thing to do would be to break out the help portion of drakx into arch specific sections, and then see if we could get all that translated. Currently the only other arch we support is ia64, and I don't believe it's that much different than x86. I can look at whether it would be possible to do this for the next iteration. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:42:50PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: I suppose the thing to do would be to break out the help portion of drakx into arch specific sections, and then see if we could get all that translated. Currently the only other arch we support is ia64, and I don't believe it's that much different than x86. I can look at whether it would be possible to do this for the next iteration. Why not introduce something in there similar to RPM's ifarch? That way when built on x86 or ia64 ppc stuff will be ignored. When manuals are generated for x86 ppc stuff can be ignored. However there is only one source of the manuals. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:42:50PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: I suppose the thing to do would be to break out the help portion of drakx into arch specific sections, and then see if we could get all that translated. Currently the only other arch we support is ia64, and I don't believe it's that much different than x86. I can look at whether it would be possible to do this for the next iteration. Why not introduce something in there similar to RPM's ifarch? That way when built on x86 or ia64 ppc stuff will be ignored. When manuals are generated for x86 ppc stuff can be ignored. However there is only one source of the manuals. That's kind of along the lines I was thinking. There is similar coding all through drakx, and that was originally how I had done some of the PPC help that was completely different that x86. I guess it's really up to the installer team, though, what they'll allow. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
Re: PPC install help files [Was: 7600 almost there]
I guess it's really up to the installer team, though, what they'll allow. Stew Benedict So... How do we write to the installer team to let them know (in a friendly way) that PPC users are paying customers and need architecture specific help files, just like the x86 users? Thanks, Stew, for all your good work! Mandrake for PPC is a great product. Let's work together to make it even greater. (Wow, I sound just like Steve Jobs... Scary. ;-) Enjoy! Rick
