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Re: Updating guidelines for developers
From: |
Rik |
Subject: |
Re: Updating guidelines for developers |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:48:12 -0700 |
On 04/19/2011 07:18 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 19-Apr-2011, Rik wrote:
>
> | 4/19/11
> |
> | I'm just putting this issue out there. We probably need to update the
> | Contributing Guidelines and the downloads page
> | (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html) to reflect the new
> | design methodology with branches. It might behoove us to do this sooner,
> | rather than later, so that we get patches in the easiest format to apply.
>
> Now that I've checked in my changes to generate the ChangeLog file
> from commit messages, I'll try to update this in the next day or two.
> If anyone has suggestions or would like to help with this, let me
> know.
4/30/11
I think the download page on the website should have a note on the build
sequence which is
sh autogen.sh
./configure ...options...
make
make check or make install
Most people want to use the tarball sequence of commands which does not
include running autogen.sh.
--Rik
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
>