[Zinf-devel] Re: Zinf-devel digest, Vol 1 #435 - 2 msgs

[Henry M. <hw...@go...>]

Thank you for letting me know what you need, now all I need to know is
where I can find it.

Thanks again

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:33, zin...@li...
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>    1. Re: volunteer (Kristian Kvilekval)
>    2. Re: volunteer (David Hough)
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> Message: 1
> Subject: Re: [Zinf-devel] volunteer
> From: Kristian Kvilekval <kr...@cs...>
> To: zin...@li...
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:16:31 -0800
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> Hi Henry,
> 
>    This project has slowed down quite a bit.  However, there
> is a nice new interface and metadata system available to those
> that are willing to run the experimental version of the code.
> If you look through the developers archive, you may see
> that David Hough and I have been publishing source code
> with arch(tla).    The experimental version has a much nicer
> interface. You might want to describe the few easy steps to 
> get it working.  There is stuff in the mailing list about it.
> 
> 
> On the technical documentation side, you could start by making a FAQ.
> There are few typical installation snafus, like zinf finding
> an old plugin directory or using an old database.
> 
> Thanks,
> kris
> 
> On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 10:54 -0800, Henry Meyerding wrote:
> > I am a tech writer and linux system admin, who is interested in providing
> > assistance to the project - either by creating/editing documentation or
> > answering inquiries.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:16:52 -0000
> To: zin...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Zinf-devel] volunteer
> From: "David Hough" <da...@th...>
> Reply-To: zin...@li...
> 
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:16:31 -0000, Kristian Kvilekval <kr...@cs...>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Henry,
> >
> >    This project has slowed down quite a bit.  However, there
> > is a nice new interface and metadata system available to those
> > that are willing to run the experimental version of the code.
> > If you look through the developers archive, you may see
> > that David Hough and I have been publishing source code
> > with arch(tla).    The experimental version has a much nicer
> > interface. You might want to describe the few easy steps to
> > get it working.  There is stuff in the mailing list about it.
> >
> 
> ...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I agree, a HOWTO detailing how to get the experimental version of Zinf  
> running on a computer would be great.
> 
> Probably wouldn't need to be much more then the details of all the  
> necessary dependecies, how to get current version of from CVS or arch, and  
> a few build instructions.
> 
> Here's a few notes that may help if you do want to do this, they're  
> probably all mentioned somewhere in the mailing list archive as well.
> - CVS doesn't include a pre-generated configure script, you need to  
> execute autogen.sh to create it
> 
> - autogen.sh requires most (if not all, i can't remember) of the normally  
> optional dependices to be installed
> 
> - to build the new stuff, you need to specifiy --enable-experimental as an  
> option to configure
> 
> - To use the new stuff, you need to change the MusicBrowserUI option in  
> ~/.zinf/preferences. Instead of musicbrowser.ui, it should be  
> musicbrowsermm.ui
> 
> - To run zinf from the build dir, so you don't need to do 'make install',  
> execute ./base/zinf
> 
> - To debug, 'gdb ./base/zinf' doesn't work. Instead execute 'libtool  
> --mode=execute gdb ./base/zinf'
> 
> If you have any problems, don't hesitate to ask. The answer may take a  
> while though, as I at least have almost zero spare time at the moment  
> (lots of university work to do).
> 
> Cheers,
> David
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