[Notion-devel] Making it easier to develop notion

[James d. <ja...@hu...>]

First off, hello!

I discovered this project after upgrading to Ubuntu maverick and finding
that ion3 had been dropped from the repository.  I'm excited to see
development continue in a friendly environment.  Thank you!  I have notion
up and running on my maverick system.

However, my experience with compiling and installing notion was painful -- I
needed to checkout 3 different git repositories which somehow depended on
each other (I ended up creating a few symlinks).  I needed to edit Makefile
by hand and finally I needed to create ~/.notion manually.

I would like to fix that process.  Making it easier to get started will
encourage more developers to join the project.

The goal would be to get notion to a point where building and running notion
from source is easy. e.g:

   1. checkout sources (e.g. git clone)
   2. build (e.g. make or maybe `./configure && make`)
   3. run (e.g. `./notion`)

Thoughts?  Comments?

- James.