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

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 15 March 2012 19:32, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15/03/2012 00:53, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On 14 March 2012 19:25, Oz Nahum Tiram <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I've noticed that the wiki page
>>> http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Build_from_source
>>> has been significantly trimmed.
>>> I also realize that most of the stuff is now migrated into the
>>> official documentation,
>>
>> Actually, it was always in the documentation. The wiki page just a
>> copied from the stuff in the manual. If we are going to be maintaining
>> documentation, I'd rather maintain only one copy of it, not keep two
>> independent copies updated.
>>
>> Furthermore, each Octave release needs its own set of build
>> instructions. It's important to version the build instructions
>> alongside the Octave release they're documenting.
>>
>> If maintaining the actual Octave documentation is too laborious (i.e.
>> if the "make a changeset" barrier is too high), perhaps we can work
>> out something else.
>
> The problem isn't the changeset barrier,

In that case, please prepare a changeset for the manual.

- Jordi G. H.