Re: "Source tree" confusion

From: Elemer Nagy (enagy@fnal.gov)
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 20:56:51 MEST


                 ... 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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