[Qemu-devel] documentation

[Qemu-devel] documentation

[G 3]

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 The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation.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. It would really help the 
Qemu community if they tried to update their documentation. 

Re: [Qemu-devel] documentation

[Johannes Schindelin]

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 The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation.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.  This 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.  The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing 
without the outdated documentation...

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.

Ciao,
Dscho

[Qemu-devel] Re: documentation

[G 3]

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 The biggest problem I face is outdated documentation.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.  This 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.  The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing
> without the outdated documentation...
>
> 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.

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.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: documentation

[Gabriel Southern]

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:
>
> 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.  This 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.  The developers seemed to be quite capable of doing
>> without the outdated documentation...
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>