"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:uzmuit3q9.fsf@boost-consulting.com...
Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk> writes:
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:55:59AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
They do look crystal clear to me. So far, they only seem to fail for people who fail to follow the directions, IMO because they feel they're in alien command-line territory and get flustered. Maybe we just need a reassuring statement at the beginning.
DON'T PANIC
How about this? Worked for the best-selling book in the galaxy ;)
I like it. Always good to start an adventure with a smile ;-)
It's really not about command line versus GUI. It's just that default installation _should_ be one-button (or one batch command) operation. Instead, a simple requirement "install the quickbook" forses a person to: 1) check out Boost CVS; 2) build bjam; 3) figure out the difference between Boost.Build v1 and v2; 4) download and configire Boost.Build v2; 5) figure out how to build the quickbook (any info about this in the docs?) 6) download xslt processor from cygwin; 7) build the Boost.Book 8) Do whatever else (I am not even close to this right now). Sorry if I am somwhat off topic. Just waisting my day off, and being frustrated RIGHT NOW. Regards, Arkadiy