Re: "Source tree" confusion

Elemer Nagy (enagy@fnal.gov)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 13:56:51 -0500 (CDT)


... and please give exact location
of the files and not just telling: "... you can find
this and that in the distribution kit..., etc".

Thanks,

Elemer

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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Valery Fine wrote:

> Hello Rene, Fons,
>
> It seems to me the "Complete source tree" confuses the users
> somehow.
> From the messages I got I concluded the users are getting
> very this tar file and confuse themselves this way. They can not find
> there neither "tutorials" nor "test" subdirectories.
> Apparently there is no "lib" and "bin" too but getting the "source
> tree" people don't expect those. They undertstand they have to build
> bin and lib themselves.
>
> May be some sort of the comment should be supplied on this topic.
> (or may be you should move this term to bottom of this page)
>
> I think we should advise people to get very "ready-to-use" copy
> FIRST (especailly for a new adopter) and leave that "source tree" as
> some sort of "documentation" for adviced usage.
>
> Valery
>
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