Hello
Thanks for your help. I notice that this mailing list works. (I am new
in this free software stuff)
Now it is my turn to help a little.
I’ve found that my problem was caused for “my”
particular behaviour as a “windows user”: “just plug and play”.
So I don’t read all the instructions: http://www.refractions.net:8080/confluence/display/DEV/0+SDK+Quickstart
Maybe I can give a few suggestions:
- In the installation and download web page you should aggregate one
link or an standing out to the “windows”, “visual
studio”, “visual basic”, etc. users (really something
similar already exist but it seems it doesn’t work fine for me) that
encourage to them to follow the instructions on the web page indicate
before.
- Also I noticed that the svn component takes its time to download
the latest version of the program and there are a couple of downloads that
exceeds the 100 Megabytes, so a “common” windows user means
“a lot of time” to download, you should warning them on it,
and aggregate something like “this is the way of software free
community makes its development effort”. Believe me, not all the
windows users likes extended downloading time.
- Also you should standing out the mailing list time response (I see
that it is hours or one day as a maximum). It is know that windows users
doesn’t like this way to “support” their applications
but I see that it works
By the way, I have another question: Yesterday I can configure the udig
and eclipse environment but I can’t compile the udig application. The
question it is not how can I compile the complete udig application, but if it
is possible only to configurate the eclipse environment (until the step 2 in
the eclipse preferences in the web page mentioned before) in order to develop
udig plug-ins
Thanks a lot
Elias Ruiz
