* tony Hamilton <[email protected]> [02-26-23 08:22]: > Thanks for the suggestions. > > With respect, your observation is clearly easy for you to say, but (and I > have a LOT of experience on this) not so easy for me to do. The explanation > (aside from the opinion oft expressed by others that I'm chronically, > endemically and terminally stupid) is indeed simple: those who write the > instructions on how to compile have to write for a general audience and so > make assumptions - sadly often wrong - about my computing environment and my > ability to comprehend those instructions. The latter factor reflects the > fact that they are written by obviously technically competent authors who > are also subject matter experts (but not necessarily writers), writing for > people like themselves - who, by very definition, do not need such > instructions. Those instructions are, in consequence, usually inaccessible > and inapplicable to people like myself. > > A significant part of the compile process is the handling of compilation > errors; here the documentation is frequently inadequate, depending on a > level of detailed knowledge and understanding which is beyond the average > Linux application user. They are typified by impossible to parse scenarios > which have an explanation of the nature of: "Oh, didn't we tell you about > dependencies abc, hij, opq (which is incompatible with def, as long as you > have, or, possibly, have not, included rst) and xyz (but not in version > 2.99)? Sorry about that." > > Oh, maybe I'm just too old and lacking a sense of humour.... > > On 25/02/2023 15:19, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > really building is simple and instructions are provided on github. >
when I get err's compiling, I can go to pixls.us or here to request help and usually that help is very quickly provided. I am definitely no compiler wizard, do not understand most errors and at > 80 years maybe a little slow. do not erect walls that are not needed. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
