On 16 May 2012, at 17:26, Frank Loeffler wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 05:05:54PM +0200, Ian Hinder wrote:
A VM is good for workshops and hands-on sessions to teach people how to use the ET. But we also need to provide practical information for how to use the ET on machines that people actually want to use. The main tutorial should in principle be independent of the place it is run.
In practice this is not true. A lot depends on system versions or compilers being installed, or not.
Those things should be hidden by SimFactory. We would provide instructions for a "recommended" set of system packages and compilers for each OS, and we would provide optionlists for these.
We may need a couple of "special case" discriminations in the general tutorial, but hopefully these will be minimal.
Keeping the tutorials up-to-date should be part of the release process, and I think should be considered quite important.
I agree with both.
Frank