[Kolab-devel] Build failure of Kolab 2.1.0 RC2 on Fedora 6

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Wed May 2 19:17:24 CEST 2007


Hi Thomas,

> - If the build simply works, the user would have wasted time looking.
> - If the build breaks, he still can look what's wrong.

You will waste less time reading the wiki than trying to figure out why
Kolab is not building :) 

But at the end of the day it is not that important.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-devel-bounces at kolab.org [mailto:kolab-devel-
> bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Arendsen Hein
> Sent: 02 May 2007 07:00 PM
> To: kolab-devel at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: [Kolab-devel] Build failure of Kolab 2.1.0 RC2 on Fedora 6
> 
> * Joon Radley <joon at radleys.co.za> [20070502 17:35]:
> > It looks very good and I agree the README should not be clustered.
> Could you
> > maybe just draw attention to the wiki before the build, as this is
> where it
> > would do the most good? An example:
> >
> > -See http://kolab.org/ for general information about Kolab,
> > -or look at http://wiki.kolab.org/ for specific topics.
> >
> > +See http://kolab.org/ for general information about Kolab. Before
> > +building your Kolab system have a look at http://wiki.kolab.org/
> > +for any hints about building Kolab on your specific Linux
> distribution.
> 
> I thought about a similar text, but:
> - If the build simply works, the user would have wasted time looking.
> - If the build breaks, he still can look what's wrong.
> - Don't make the reader assume that building will probably break, he
>   might not even consider trying to build it then.
> 
> Good suggestions for solving this are welcome :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
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