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Month: June 2012

Re: [trinity-users] is there a version of trinity that acually works

From: Dan Youngquist <dan@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:31:26 -0700
On 06/28/2012 06:08 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>     Lou Gogan wrote:
>     > Is there a different installation page with instructions of how to
>     obtain a
>     > working version of trinity? Is there a working version?
> 
> I strongly suggest Slavek's packages. I have deployed them on all of my
> systems with  great success.

Part of his point was that the installation instructions on the website do
not result in a working system.  This is something we talked about here
several months ago, and nothing has been done about it.  Repeating what I
said then, how many people do you think have found the website, tried to
install Trinity according to the instructions there, ended up with a
hopelessly buggy system and a lot of time wasted, and will never try Trinity
again?  Lou is one of a tiny minority who have come to the mailing list
looking for help -- many, many more simply go away quietly.

How hard would it really be to fix the website?  What would it take -- 20
minutes?  And how many are there here who are perfectly capable of doing it
if given access?  It would move the project from a few developers and
die-hard dedicated groupies, to an actual viable DE that anyone can install
and use.  I would've thought that would be a pretty high priority, but what
do I know?

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