Re: installation on fedora core 2 - notes

[Dmitry Borodaenko]

On 2/2/07, boud <address@hidden> wrote:
> After an hour or so trying to work out why differencing in the wiki
> history failed, i realised that algorithm/diff.rb was missing and that
> this only caused a "soft fail". This is probably a Good Thing since it's
> not important enough that it should force a full failure, and it should
> be easy for a developer to pick out what went wrong.

Yes, this was done this way intentionally. If you take a look at
Recommends: of samizdat Debian package, you will see other libraries,
absense of which will only cause "soft fails": GetText and RedCloth.

In "required software" section of install.txt, it is also said that
these are merely recommended, might be worth saying more explicitly
that Samizdat will fail gracefully if these are not present.

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Dmitry Borodaenko