[sword-devel] free Windows compiler for SWORD

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Chris Little wrote:

> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:06, Chris Little wrote:
> > 
> >>And it nonetheless stands; Linux users who don't know how to compile
> >>for themselves need to learn (or move back to Windows).
> > 
> > 
> > Or, to read this another way, if you're an _administrator_ instead of a 
> > user, compiling should be no problem. Users of the dolly-bird-secretary 
> > or rough-n-tough-farmhand variety shouldn't need to know. "Just because 
> > you can" is not the same as "you should".
> 
> Ok, let me put it this way.  If you don't know how to compile on Linux, 
> that probably means you were too lazy to read the documentation or are 
> not sufficiently technical to follow it.  Both of these situations 
> suggest a very high likelihood that I don't want your module 
> contribution anyway.  Why?  Because it will require more work from me to 
> fix it than it took for you to make it in the first place and in all 
> probability we would have all been better off if I'd just done it myself 
> in the first place.  In other words, if not having the tools (or not 
> being able to compile them) had prevented you from making a module, it 
> would have saved everyone a lot of work.

This sounds like doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

I amrather familiar with HTML and SGML assume I can get my head around 
other descriptive languages.

I can compile my own software and propably fix a Makefile or give a 
detailed report so the author of the software can fix it as I am no 
programmer.

But to this day I have not been able to understand from the crosswire 
website how to go about and create a module if I wanted to. And I have 
been looking into some Dutch documents I might want to add. But to this 
day I find the website too hard navigate to find anything beyond the 
modules itself.

If you want people to contribute you might want to considere which skills 
are required and which are not. At present the information is too hard to 
find. (I would expect some information at 
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/volunteer/writers.jsp but there is none.)

So some short term issues  you may want to fix:
 - Use the <title> info so navigation of the website makes more sense.
 - Define "Developers", "Volunteers" and "publishers" as it is not clear 
   enough what you mean by those section.

I fear you assume everyone thinks the way you do and will find your way of 
organizing things the logical way. In my experience if 10 persons should 
organize the information you end up with anywhere between 5 and 8 
different approaches.

Hugo.

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