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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Makes sense.  There is already a link to the Developer's Documentation
on the website so everything should be good to go.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 1/4/2016 9:49 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
> 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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