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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [despammed] Newbie Guide to Building KDE from CVS.  Comments
From:       Esben Mose Hansen <esben () despammed ! com>
Date:       2003-09-13 7:29:01
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On Friday 12 September 2003 01:09, Gary Cramblitt wrote:

> In addition to corrections, technical errors, mispellings, grammar,
> etc., I am interested in overall comments from the developer community
> on this article.  Is the approach used in the article "right"?  Should
> newbies be encouraged to join the fray at all?  Are there important
> considerations I've left out?

It is always difficult to write newbie guides. They have to be short, and to 
the point, and that means lots of nuances missed. Here's what immediately 
struck me as odd:

1) It's fairly rpm-centric. That is not necessarily bad, as it is used by many 
distroes, but if you don't use rpm the entire "preparing & QT Libraries" 
sections are useless. So I think you should tell your reader up front ("These 
sections are rpm-centric; if you use a distro such as Mandrake, Gentoo or 
Debian, this section will not be much use to you"). 

2) There really is no need to set the default runlevel to 3; or at least, I 
don't. I just start an additional X-server. While a guide to do this is 
probably beyond scope, the possibility should mentioned, IMHO. If you want, I 
could probably write how to do this --- it's not that hard. I would like 
someone to test it, though... 

3) One thing that never mentioned is that when doing the initial checkout 
things can be sped up tremendously by downloaded a nightly snapshot:
 a) download the relevant tar-ball  from 
<ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots>
 b) unpacking it in your ~/src/kde in your tutorial 
	tar -jxvf <tarball.tar.bz2>
 c) cd <package-name>, e.g. kdebase
 d) cvs update
This procedure should also save the CVS servers from much work.

>
> When you send me corrections and comments, please indicate whether you
> want your name added to the credits at the end.

Only if you include no.3 :o)
(Name is Esben Mose Hansen)
-- 
regards, Esben

esben@despammed.com *---* http://home.worldonline.dk/~mesben


 
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