Re: gEDA-user: Usability issues of gEDA + PCB

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:54:01PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Would it be possible to do the following changes to increase usability?
> >> 1) Merge PCB into gEDA so it gets installed all at once. If installing
> >>    PCB is an issue, add --disable-pcb into ./configure
> >> 2) Make the install process one ./configure && make && make install if
> >>    possible. Installing gEDA fresh always takes me like 1-2 days 
> >> because
> >>    it's like 20 libraries where you have to guess the versions 
> >> correctly
> >>    and if you fail, you have to retry etc.
> >
> >IMHO 2) should be top priority, followed by 1). I would be willing to 
> >invest some time in achieving this goal, but since it touches a lot of 
> >packages, this should be discussed before it is done.
> >
> 
> 	Yeah, I would hate see duplicated effort. 
> 
> 	From my experience (and as others have pointed out), Stuart's
> installer already handles this.  More experienced users can do the install
> themselves, but Stuart's installer should pretty much addresses this on
> modern Linux systems.  Is it missing something?

Yes instructions on the download page "download Stuart installer this
and this way from this file" and hiding the rest of the files or placing
them in a way that the user sees they shouldn't attempt to download
them separately.

CL<