[M3devel] RC4

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:

> I installed a few packages of RC4 a while ago for Debiaan Squeeze Linux
> on intel 32-bit, and have had no problems with them.  They work just
> fine,
>
> I installed the core package, and then gui and m3gdb.

Fine.

> WHile installing I noticed the following:
>
> The installation instructions told me to use a new empty
> directory to unpack packages.  Is it a new empty directory for each
> package, or can I use the same one for all packages?  If I use the
> same one, should I empty it before each package?  And should this be
> different from the directory where I unpacked
> cm3-bin-ws-m3devtool-TARGET-VERSION.tgz?  I made a new directory to
> unpack each package, but the instructions should be more explicit.

I'll try to improve that for RC5.

> There should be some mention which packages depend on which others.  I
> suspect, for example,  that juno requires gui.  Such constraints should
> be mentioned in the installatioin instructions.

You mean something like

   http://www.modula3.com/cm3/releng/collection-juno.html

? Probably the link to the package descriptions is too hidden in the table
(last column).

Thanks for the feedback,

Olaf
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