Re: why is the wiki page on building octave so lacking?

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/16/2012 09:14 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The wiki is supposed to supplement the manual, not duplicate it or
> replace it.  If there is information in the wiki that more logically
> belongs in the manual, then it should be moved to the manual and we
> should link from the wiki to the manual.

I'd like the wiki to be a bit more platform specific so that those 
having a common platform can assist others.  For example, Oz has a 
Debian instruction page that has proved most popular.  That is the sort 
of thing that should be in a Wiki.  Wikis are meant to be a fluid 
document that improve themselves via contributions over time.

Historically for me, the toughest part of any project that requires 
building always seems to be actually getting the code from the onset. 
Once I have the code, compile failures are usually verbose enough to 
figure out what additional tools or upgrades are needed.  The wiki is 
where I found instruction on the repository location and mercurial 
commands.  Unfortunately, when mercurial (or any other internet source 
control program) fails, it's just "can't find that".

I'm using Fedora, and I think the issue has something to do with ipv6. 
It would be nice to look to the wiki to help identify the problem from 
other people's experience rather than blindly try things.

Dan