FreeLists / haiku-web / [haiku-web] Re: development page

["Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:10 -0400, Curtis Wanner wrote:
> Although, I'm having an issue with this sentence:
> "In case you have a limited amount of partitions, this can be an excellent
> alternative."
> 
> What exactly is this getting at? You need limited partitions to use BeOS?
> You don't have the space for another Haiku partition??  I almost want to
> just eliminate that sentence altogether.  Sounds like something that should
> be discussed in a separate document such as "Setting up for Haiku
> Development"

On (what at least looks to me) a related note, off the list Michael Lotz
suggested the following, and I quote:

> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:31 +0200, Michael Lotz wrote:
> Instead of just providing links to the different development packages it would
> IMHO be nicer to have a page that detailed how to correctly set them up. Like
> the "getting linux developer tools" page that explains how to set up a proper
> environment. This page could then tell how to install the developer tools,
> replace the gcc with the new version and install the cross compiler. Then in
> the "getting and building the source" page (which should be linked from the
> other page) there should be information how to configure the cross-compiler
> (like there currently already is).
> I say that because a user doing "configure" and getting a "you need gcc-xy
> from haiku-os.org" will likely otherwise have no clue what to do with the
> cross-compiler zip once downloaded.

I suppose such a document would definitely be good to have, but then we
would need someone to write it. :) Perhaps we can ask on the haiku-dev
mailing list if someone would volunteer to write it?

In the meantime, if there are no objections, I will replace the content
of the Development page with the revised text that we have so far. We
can always improve on it as we go along.

Cheers,

Koki


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