[Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

[John Leake]

What is going on here ?

I really do not understand. I (John Leake the gambas newbie) started a
new thread about the problems I was experiencing in attempting to build
from svn trunk.

Please do not loose sight of the fact that it all worked in the end
(which is a major achievement).

I was careful to be as self sufficient as possible. With my limited
knowledge of this domain I was forced to used common SE techniques (in
the absence of any direct integrated help) to try and find a definitive
explanation as to how I should p[roceed.

At the end of the thread I made extra effort to pull my entire
experience into a concise conclusion so that other newbies do not
generate the same old noise that seems to have been going on since 2008.

Why does documentation get the short end of the stick and never get the
attention it deserves.  It would save everyone a whole shed load of time
if it was streamlined and put in one place along side the code that it
was meant to represent.  It really cannot exist outside of source code
control.

Where will you be when there is a gambas4, 5 and 6 ?

If you combine the help (relevant to this thread) from each of the 4
urls' I had to visit it would only be a few lines longer than any of the
urls if taken separately.

By the way I selected version 3 where there was an option to do so.

What is wrong with a generic explanation followed by caveats pertinent
to each distro where required ?