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Re: [Quanta] FAQs

Subject: Re: [Quanta] FAQs
From: Andras Mantia
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:55:20 +0200
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:34, Rick Hobson wrote:
> As someone who struggles with some of this I find the various
> dependencies difficult to get a handle on and also the various names
> that keep cropping up.  OK, I've got the hang of Kate, Quanta and
> kdewebdev (I think although I'm not absolutely sure what it contains)

I think it's pretty clear if you look at the package, especially that 
kdewebdev/README has the following lines:

Kommander: a GUI script builder and executor tool. Needed for some 
Quanta functionality.
KFileReplace: powerful search and replace in multiple files
KXSLDbg: XSL debugger
KImageMapEditor: image map editor
KLinkStatus: link validity checker

> but:
>
> Cervisia?

About requirements, dependencies, read kdewebdev/PACKAGING.
And I extended Quanta now so on startup will warn you about all the 
missing (possible) extensions telling you also what they are used for. 
Cervisia is needed for the CVS operations.

> Qt?

Hm, explaining what kdelibs and qt is is something is not Quanta 
specific at all, but we can do it. ;-) But maybe we need to explain 
what is libc and the kernel then...

> I'm sure there are others.

> Does an update of kdewebdev update all I need?

It depends what do you need. It will not update Cervisia, nor Kompare, 
but will update all the applications that are in kdewebdev (logically).

> Does KDE need updating at the same time? (presumably).
Depends. Usually Quanta is compatible with the previous version of KDE, 
so Quanta 3.3 runs on KDE 3.2 as well, but does not run on 3.1. Now 
with 3.4 the situation is a little bit different as, altough untested, 
I see no reason why Quanta 3.4 wouldn't run on KDE 3.2.

> This list of FAQs could be pretty long.  

Well, let's gather the questions and we will filter out what is 
important and frequently asked.

> What I would love is a detailed HowTo which took me though the steps
> needed to update/install kdewebdev with information about
> dependencies and details (or links) on how to update those packages
> and libraries.

All we can give is information about how to do this from source. I think 
we need such a section on the new site, be it in the FAQ or in a HOWTO.

So I propose: you (users) write the questions and what do you think 
would be useful, we (the developers) will try to answer them and create 
howtos.

Andras

> Not much to ask :-).

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