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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I agree with Kevin. The Linux building Instructions should not be included as part of the Sigil User Guide. Neither should the instructions for building Sigil on OSX or Windows.
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I respect your opinions and completely DIS-agree with both of you. Even if the build instructions are not included in the Sigil docs I think they should be somewhere and in a better format than those linked to from the Sigil home page, IMHO.
I didn't add build instructions for OSX or Windows because they are not needed - their users are catered for, Linux users are not.
My view is that the distinction between users and coders is blurred for Linux users because the assumption is that Linux users are comfortable compiling code - some may be, many won't.
If you look at the competition, Jutoh provides installers for Windows, Mac OS, .deb and rpm packages in 32-bit & 64-bit versions and the developer is a one-man outfit. Surely you must see that Sigil's developers are far better placed to create Linux installers than the average Linux user.
I am still using version 0.8.6 on Linux Mint (which I think was from a deb package created by your good self
). I would love to be able to upgrade to 0.9.7 but I'm not a technical user (although more so than a layperson I suspect).
Meanwhile I will still use (and love) my old version of Sigil, as well as Jutoh and calibre for my formatting endeavours. I hope you will consider my thoughts and be a bit more open to helping Linux users more.
Mark B
