From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3bry-00012p-GL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:13:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M3bru-00012d-1s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:13:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54845 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3brt-00012a-Tv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:12:57 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f111.google.com ([209.85.221.111]:52406) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M3brt-0000SO-GU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 16:12:57 -0400 Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so4100770qyk.4 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 13:12:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <805dd60006bc438b1f5f980b7306adf0@gmail.com> References: <805dd60006bc438b1f5f980b7306adf0@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:12:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3c2bf46d0905111312q2cb610b7qb0f27132b3e00350@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: documentation From: Gabriel Southern Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: G 3 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 wrote: > > On May 11, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 11 May 2009, G 3 wrote: >> >>> 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 The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation.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. =A0This is an Open Source project, so people = do >> what they like, and apparently nobody liked taking care of the >> documentation. >> >>> It would really help the Qemu community if they tried to update their >>> documentation. >> >> I fail to see how. =A0The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing >> without the outdated documentation... >> >> Oh, and if you wanted to suggest that better documentation could give QE= mu >> a bigger user community: as far as I can tell, nobody working on QEmu >> would have any benefit from a larger user base. > > 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 enjo= y > this program as well. > > > >