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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yea I was going to trash the website copy of instructions. It's too
much of a pita to maintain separately.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/4/2016 5:14 AM, David Godfrey wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom, Maciej
>>
>> On 04/01/16 17:47, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>
>>> Thank you for noticing, a pull request to correct this has already been
>>> sent.
>>
>>> BTW: I have just noticed we keep two documents describing the compiling
>>> process - on the website and in the source repository
>>> (Documentation/development/compiling.md). How about getting rid of the
>>> latter one?
>> Could I argue against removing the doc in the source.
>> If I need to work out how to compile something, I always use local docs
>> from the repository at (in theory) they should be correct for that exact
>> version of source.
>>
>> On the other hand, a version of the doc kept on a website is very likely
>> not correct for that version of source.
>> It can only present a single method that is correct for a given version.
>> (unless you want to complicate it with lots of [do this for ver:X but
>> not ver:Y] statements.
>> As (using git) I could decide to install branch "master" or go back in
>> time and install branch "0.6" it is likely that the web instructions
>> will be wrong for one or both methods, while the docs in the source tree
>> should be correct or close to correct at least.
>>
>> Regards
>> David G
>
> I would prefer that we maintain the compiling instructions as part of
> the developers documentation.  @David's argument about version control
> is valid.  As developers, we need to do a better job of keeping this up
> to date as the project changes.  A better solution might be to link the
> compiling instructions in the developer's documentation on the website
> rather than maintain two separate versions.  The developers docs get
> rebuilt every commit so they should always be up to date.  This would
> probably work because the website only needs the current build instructions.
>
>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Orson
>>
>>> On 12/30/2015 07:42 PM, Tom Andrews wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just a quick one for the website, under the Linux build from source page,
>>>> the dependencies are missing packages: libglm-dev and
>> libcurl4-openssl-dev
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Mark