Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: documentation

[Gabriel Southern <gabriel.southern@gmail.com>]

If you want help using QEMU, I think the QEMU forum is probably a
better place to ask than the qemu-devel mailing list (I don't think
there is a working qemu-users mailing list):

http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/index.php

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:53 PM, G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On May 11, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Mon, 11 May 2009, G 3 wrote:
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>>> I have been trying to compile Qemu on MinGW but I keep running into
>>> problems. The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation. Who is
>>> in charge of Qemu's documentation? In the section about compiling under
>>> Windows there is mention of a file called i386-mingw32msvb.tar.gz. This
>>> file doesn't exist any more in SDL 1.2.13.
>>
>> Well, nobody is in charge.  This is an Open Source project, so people do
>> what they like, and apparently nobody liked taking care of the
>> documentation.
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>>> It would really help the Qemu community if they tried to update their
>>> documentation.
>>
>> I fail to see how.  The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing
>> without the outdated documentation...
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>> Oh, and if you wanted to suggest that better documentation could give QEmu
>> a bigger user community: as far as I can tell, nobody working on QEmu
>> would have any benefit from a larger user base.
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> Better documentation would make it easier for users to actually make Qemu. I
> know all you Qemu experts know how to compile the program, but remember
> there are still people out there that don't know as much as you do. It is
> only logical that up to date documentation be provided so others may enjoy
> this program as well.
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