On Sunday 18 May 2008, Damon Register wrote: > I do find that many times instructions are written for the experts > and sometimes leave out small details that might not be so obvious > for non-experts. > Instructions written by the software authors will nearly always be written for experts. This should be no surprise - the software authors are experts at software development, they are not linguists nor literary experts. What is needed is a team of technical writers with (a) little to no detailed knowledge of the product at the start and (b) enough direct access to the software developers that they can acquire that knowledge while writing the documentation. But I've yet to come across a commercial organisation that understands this well enough to commit the resources, so I wouldn't hold your breath for seeing it on an open-source project! > > As a minimum I would suggest that anyone wanting to get started with GTK > on Windows do the following. That list looked more complex than I remember having to do. I was intending to port some GTKmm code to Windows, but what works for that should work for plain GTK. I seem to recall I had to install two packages - GTKmm-dev and DevC++. AFAIK DevC++ uses the MinGW back-end. It may be more complex if you don't want an IDE, though. Rob _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
