Jan Waclawek wrote: >> IMO you're not supposed to do anything, but help sure is >> welcome. The SDCC manual is written using LYX. If you >> use 1.4 be sure to save as backward compatible with 1.3. >> The file to change is sdccman.lyx in the doc directory >> of the source tree. After updating you can create a >> patch file (with context) and upload it in the patch >> tracker. >> > > Dear Maarten, and others, > > My biggest problem is, that this is a hobby and I do it at home. And I live > in a small village, with no high-speed internet, just a POTS dialup (thanks > for that) or a similarly slow GSM/.GPRS connection. > > And this STUPID STUPID STUPID world, including the OS community, simply > assumes that . I don't believe this at all - why, this plainly excludes all > the 3rd world from, and that's the vast majority of potential developers! > > I tried, honestly. Downloaded the "net installation" of lyx, 73MB, in true > belief, this is all I need. Even made a trial installation; unfortunately on > a machine which is online (so I didn't notice the background downloads). >
I think I already indicated you the solution: get the Linux distribution which contains everything you need on a DVD or CDs. An example is Fedora Core. If you can't get it elsewhere, I can send it by the snail mail ;-) > Now I am trying it and it complains of lack of MiKTEX packages. I am > browsing now for more than a hour and cannot get a simple download site for > those packages (I assume they are huge but am willing to go to a highspeed > access place and get it from there and bring it home on a CD or DVD). > > Why MiKTEX? Don't you use Linux? > This is a deadlock and I cannot afford to spend more time and resources on > this case. I assumed I will spend some time getting into quirks of LYX, and > here I am again, browsing for those gold nuggets of real information > scattered accross the net... > > And the same I assume will be the case when I try to set up for SDCC > compilation. I just hope, the SDCC community will never go this stupid way. > > I am very disappointed. Sorry. > I can understand you, but I don't think that we (SDCC users and developers) are the guilty ones. > JW > > PS. In these situations, one starts to appreciate the wiki approach truly... > > PS2 originally I wanted to ask, why ver 1.3, the wiki says the LYX at > compile farm is 1.44...? > The version on the machine which compiles the documentation is version 1.44, while the format of the document is 1.3. But this will be changed in the near future. So you have to get LyX version 1.4x. > PS3. and of course I don't have the slightest idea what does it take to > "create a patch", notabene "with context".... > > See man diff and man patch. Borut ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
