Re: [Everybuddy-Dev] Suggestion

<<Sorry, getting back from holiday, now working, catching up slowly>>

This is a very good point, actually - we could use some documentation.

This is really part of our next big problem, as I see it: The software 
we have is now sufficiently featureful that it can probably handle the 
needs of a more "average" user, but there are a number of things which 
are real stumbling blocks to the non-hackers among us:

(*)	Installing from source - this is a right pain in the arse.
		Suggested solution: Get binary packages happening. RPM, DEB...an
		ebuild?

(*)	The gnutls dependency (possibly, even probably a sub-problem of #1)
		Suggested solution: As above? Package dependencies are considerably
		more friendly than ./configure errors.

(*)	The cookies. We NEED to do something about the setup stage of
	GUIcomms - as it is, it's just ugly and impractical. I pretty much know
	what I want to do, but this is predicated on getting the transport
	layer asynchronous and SSL-ready. Craig, you've been making noises
	about mucking with GUIcomms for a while. Unless something happens
	soon (in trunk/ or people/acwest, I don't care), I'm going to assume
	I'm clear to stomp all over the current code organisation.
		Suggestion: Get me to actually do some work on it.

(*)	Documentation - we do need this, as what eb-lite is and how it works
	isn't wonderfully obvious to the newcomer.
		Suggestions: Uhm...I'm rather stumped, actually. I know someone who
		offered to do docs a while ago, but I'm not sure if that offer's still
		open. It would be good if someone quite familiar with the project
		were to do this...any volunteers?
	

And I know that this isn't even getting into other UIs such as Senility 
(yes, I do remember you, Rodney, and I am going to have that password 
management stuff done, I promise!) and ebnc, but my PoV is that we 
really ought to start getting something of ours to a wider potential 
audience.

Meredydd


On Saturday 24 July 2004 20:59, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Hi again,
> Another things which might be a good idea is to make a good
> installation manual, since that gets more and more complicated with
> the GnuTLS stuff.
>
> - Jeroen
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