Dear Waldek and Ralf,

Firstly, thank you very much for your quick replies.

> Sorry, but I am ill at the moment.
> [...]
> Can you wait a bit with your pull requests, I have something locally,
> but did not have time to finish and publish. Sorry.
> [...]
> I'd be happy to discuss the documentation with you when I feel better.

Ralf, wish you a speedy recovery! I will look forward to the discussion on 
the documentation. In the meantime, I will try to follow the instructions 
(exactly) from 'install.html' and ensure that they work, as suggested by 
Waldek.

> Hmm, "install" clearly failed, as you did not find information how
> to rebuild documentation. The first step to contribute should be
> for you to repeat documentation build following instructions from
> the 'install.html' (plain text version is in the FriCAS source tree
> as 'INSTALL'). Source for 'install.html' (and 'INSTALL') is in
> ' src/doc/sphinx/source/install.rst', 'INSTALL' is generated using
> a script 'generate_INSTALL.sh', 'install.html' is created as part
> of general documentation build.

Thank you very much for this and for the doc build instructions. This is 
the first time I installed FriCAS from the sources and I did, in fact, read 
this section. But, based on the GitHub commit timestamps, my first instinct 
was to suspect that the instructions are outdated and that the website is 
built from private sources. Please note that the '_sources' directory in 
the repo https://github.com/fricas/fricas.github.io does have updated 
(recent) files, incl. 'install.rst.txt', adding to the confusion.

> BTW: You wrote "the website", but really there is no "the" here.
> Most up to date information is at SourceForge, <https://fricas.sf.net/>

Thank you again for this info. In my (very) biased view, SF is "old world 
opensource" and GitHub is the "new world opensource;" so when a GitHub repo 
is available, I invariably (and in this case wrongly) assume that's the 
latest one.

I look forward to discussing with Ralf once he's well and assisting him 
with the documentation.

-- ark


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