[Visualpython-users] Linux users of VPython, unite!

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

I'd like to propose a small Linux VPython community project. I find it 
frustrating that what look to me like the same Linux questions and problems 
keep recurring. Ari Heitner has been trying to provide some compiled 
packages, but it's clear that these often are not usable, depending on the 
Linux flavor, so there should be a high-quality document explaining how to 
do a source compile and install.

I propose that someone knowledgeable draft and post FULLY detailed, 
comprehensive instructions for how to compile and install on various common 
flavors of Linux. Other knowledgeable Linux users would critique and debate 
the document. When everyone had thrashed out agreement, we would post this 
prominently on the VPython site. The document needs in particular to state 
clearly and in detail all the dependencies, and all the places where one 
has to go to get the various pieces. And if we get that far, maybe we could 
even get all the pieces together in one place!

Feel free also to tell me that my proposal makes no sense. Since I'm not a 
Linux user, I may well have misunderstood everything. But watching from the 
sidelines it sure sounds like utter chaos that one is sent to lots of 
different repositories to find obscure files and keep trying to compile and 
find other dependencies and ask some more questions and update the compiler 
itself to the latest version and then.....

Bruce Sherwood