Re: why is the wiki page on building octave so lacking?

[Richard Crozier]

On 17/03/2012 17:37, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 16-Mar-2012, oz123 wrote:

> *ALL* of the install information that is part of the installation
> chapter in the manual is found in the INSTALL.OCTAVE file because
> INSTALL.OCTAVE *IS* the chapter in the manual on installation.  It
> generated automatically as part of the build process, and it is
> included in the source distributions of Octave.
> 

> No, as far as I could tell, it was just a copy of what was already in
> the installation chapter from the manual.  If not, and there was
> something more in the wiki page, then please put that information in the
> manual.
> 
> The wiki page has a link that points directly to the HTML page that is
> the installation guide.
> 
> jwe
> 

This is sort of my point, it is an exact copy of what's in the manual (I
copied it, verbatim), and yet, for some reason, people think there is
far more info in the wiki than the manual.

This is almost purely a formatting issue. The manual is structured more
like a piece of code than a document for human consumption.

Richard

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