Re: Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Marc Spehlmann
curl is needed for the download_script. There's probably many other prereqs (git/bash) that are required, but they're sort of obvious to system builders. So I could see removing it for that reason. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Jignesh Patel wrote: > Marc, > > Should we get rid of curl from th

Re: Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Jignesh Patel
Marc, Should we get rid of curl from the build instructions? We don’t need it with the current instruction flow. Cheers, Jignesh On 2/7/17, 6:43 PM, "Marc Spehlmann" wrote: For example, here is the edited doc: https://github.com/cramja/incubator-quickstep/blob/refactor-building/BUI

Re: Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Jignesh Patel
Great changes! +1 for replacing the current building doc with this one. Cheers, Jignesh On 2/7/17, 6:43 PM, "Marc Spehlmann" wrote: For example, here is the edited doc: https://github.com/cramja/incubator-quickstep/blob/refactor-building/BUILDING.md#prerequisites On Tue, Feb

Re: Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Marc Spehlmann
For example, here is the edited doc: https://github.com/cramja/incubator-quickstep/blob/refactor-building/BUILDING.md#prerequisites On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Marc Spehlmann wrote: > Any objections if I remove the 'Getting cmake' section? It seems long, and > like information that a databas

Re: Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Marc Spehlmann
Any objections if I remove the 'Getting cmake' section? It seems long, and like information that a database programmer would probably already know/google and quickly find out. Instead I can link to cmake's webpage in the prereq section On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Marc Spehlmann wrote: > Re-

Editing documentation for release: BUILDING.md

2017-02-07 Thread Marc Spehlmann
Re-reading BUILDING.md, it seems like this doc might be a victim of being added to iteratively over time without consideration to the overall structure. I am purposing to par down some of the language and shift the sections around in a flow that a novice quickstep user would probably want: 0 a hea