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

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:07:32PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> [snip]
> >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.
> >
> 
> 	Hmmm.  Should I really dumb down the download page?  After all
> the target audience of gEDA consists of electrical and/or computer
> engineers!?  Something in my being is resisting this and I can't put my
> finger on exactly what.  However if it'll help, I'd be willing to make

I have master degree in computer science (OS, compilers and networks)
and I am dumb. (#define dumb doesn't want to waste hours with studying
of scientific papers describing dependencies between gEDA parts, then
posing a hypothesis how the installation could succeed and finally
experimentally testing the hypothesis). So please dumb it down.

"Exactly what" is: write on the beginning of the page "to install gEDA,
first determine if you want source installation or binary or CD-ROM or
whatever by testing this and this. If you want source skip to bar and if
not, do this and this. Then, if your version of foo is greater than
2.1.5, download this, type this, erase this file, type this command..."

So when one does it, he gets running gEDA installation regardless of
what OS he's using, what version, what version of GTK etc.

> the download page *really* simple.

Now the download page (http://geda.seul.org/download.html) generates
the following error when I attempt to execute it in my brain:

"Warning: multiple references to external SOI* :
encountered >>Read this!<< 4 times. Ignoring in code stream."
"Error: natural language parser: SOI* marker not found."
*) SOI = Start Of Instructions.

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