Notes for building on Debian

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Thu Mar 23 04:36:42 EST 2006


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Hi,

Fabien COELHO schrieb:
>>>> These are my notes for getting the gnucash tarball, and later
>>>> gnucash svn, to build under debian, in particular the packages
>>>> I needed to install.  I had been hoping to clean them up and
>>>
>>> Maybe these notes could be added somewhere to the source tree.
>>> I would suggest to put them as "doc/build-debian.txt".
>>
>> Nah -- just put them on the Wiki.
> 
> So remove other build-*.txt files in the doc and put them on the wiki as
> well. Do not put similar files in two totally different places.

Neither the source tree nor the wiki contains any text about building on
Debian so far. The point is that the notes should be added *somewhere*.
BUT a document containing this notes, just like every document, needs
some editing before it can be stored forever. Neither Derek nor me nor
any other active developers are very inclined to do this right now (busy
with coding). That is why Derek suggested that anyone else who is
reading here right now could help with this task by simply putting it
into the wiki, where everyone has write-access and everyone can edit the
document until it is in a good, readable shape and can be understood by
everyone interested.

Once this is done, we would happily copy the finished document into SVN.

> AFAIC, I would look for installation instructions within the sources,
> not within the web site.

If we made a poll, we would probably discover half of the people answer
"sources" and the other half answer "web site". Both are suitable places.

Christian

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