[brailleblaster] Re: BrailleBlaster website updated
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:31:14 -0500
Hi Vic,
Thankis for your comments. I'll be applying corrections to the website
over the next few days.
John
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:55:19PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> John,
>
> This is very helpful for newbies. Here are my comments to make it even
> easier.
>
> You give a link to the ANT home page so could you give a link to the
> Mercurial home page or a site where you can download it?
>
> >From the website: you must then compile liblouis liblouisutdml and libxml1
> and copy
> the compiled libraries into the dist/narive/lib directory.
>
> Is it libxml1 or libxml2? I am a little confused about this library. From
> the web page it sounds to me like you would have to build it for Windows
> even though I know you don't. How does it relate to Windows?
>
> In this statement there is a typo in the path. It should be dist/native/lib.
>
> >From the website: SWT jar file for gtk 64-bits
>
> Should this be a link? It isn't.
>
> >From the website: commons-exec-1.1.jar, execute enternal prograns
>
> Should this be "internal programs?"
>
> >From the BB download page: Please read these instructions before dowloading
> anything! BrailleBlaster works on
> Linux, Mac and Windows in both 32 and 64 bits. There is a separate download
> for each
> platform and architecture. Chose the one that matches yours.
>
> In the first line, it should be "downloading."
>
> In the last line, it should be "choose."
>
> Should you mention the link to the liblouisutdml Mercurial repository to
> clone from?
>
> Should you give the link to the liblouis repository and mention that it is a
> Subversion repository, different than Mercurial?
>
> I think links to get the needed programs to build with and keep the
> repositories up to date are very important. This was one of the most
> confusing things for me when I got into this. You can find different
> versions of the tools from different websites and you don't really know
> enough about it to know what to download.
>
> This update to the website is a great start to help more people to be able
> to build Braille Blaster from scratch with the latest updates. Great job!
>
>
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>
> Vic
> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:04 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] BrailleBlaster website updated
>
> the "for developers" page now contains instructions for building
> BrailleBlaster and links to all the jar files that must be placed in
> dist/lib
>
> John
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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