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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 October 2012 15:59, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I was going to refer a young engineering student to the page
>
> https://launchpad.net/kicad-winbuilder
>
> and ask that he try and use it to build newest KiCad.
>
> However after reading the initial page, I began to question if there is enough
> instructional information in those few paragraphs for a complete novice.
>
> Specifically, does it say:
>
>
> a) what bzr and cmake are?
>
> b) that they have to be installed ahead of time?
>
> c) where to get them from?
>
>
>
> I ended up holding off asking the kid to proceed, and this could simply be a
> mis-understanding on my part.  I'd wish for the above 3 items to be covered on the
> introductory page.
>
>
>
> I do like the idea of having a cup of coffee, which is one of the recommendations on the page.
>
>
> Thanks for your work,
>
> Dick

Hi Dick,

I've added some more information to the project's description. The
information was/is at the start of the script, but it's not intuitive
to open the script with a text editor before doing anything else!
Perhaps a simple readme.txt would be better.

Best Regards, Brian.