Fwd: Re: install instructions

Stephen, I would be sad if you did remove that page. I was not trying to be critical of XEmacs, or the fellows who maintain it. I was just trying to show the extent of the problem, or what I am thinking is the problem (I could be wrong). I have trouble following these directions and I think that other new people might too. And I think that some people who are expert lisp coders and have been doing this for so long are so far removed from being a beginner, that they can not clearly see what trips a beginner up, because they *know* the answers to some of my questions instinctively. (and yeah, I'm still a rank beginner compared to others here). I spent three hours writing that post because I want things to be better, and I am willing to be part of the solution--I'm willing to re-write that page, but cannot do it alone because I don't *know* enough yet. Even if I got some help, ie someone who, once I rewrite it, can correct it and pass it back, I would still have to figure out how to upload it to the website which is on mercurial if I recall correctly. The website seems so interconnected with the links on each page pointing to other pages that I would be afraid of getting all the links hooked back up and working again after replacing a page. Maybe that would work itself out someway. There are so few developers on XEmacs, that I cannot complain that the website needs their attention, instead of the coding they do. I'm willing to help. There are a lot of things wrong with the website that a person does not need to know XEmacs architecture to fix. On the "http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32 /index.html#InnoSetup-Beta-Download" page, about 1/4 of the links are no longer working. They need explored to see if the page has moved or if it is not there at all at this time. I can explore things like that and report what needs changed. But I would not like to report such things if it meant there was a chance the page would be taken down. Would you consider, instead of deleting the page, putting a statement at the top of it, something like: "The definitive install instructions for each version of XEmacs is the INSTALL file in the top directory of the source code for that version. What follows is general directions written some time ago that may need updated when there is time and people to do so." Steve Mitchell On 11/03/2012 01:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta