Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of NewParrotDeveloperGuide

Timestamp:

01/01/09 12:18:37 (13 years ago)

Author:

barney

Comment:

Add a note, saying the book is not up to date.

NewParrotDeveloperGuide

@@ -1 +1 @@
 == Newcomers Welcome! ==
 
-We're going to do our best to document the experiences of newcomers to Perl, Parrot and Open Source software development. Hopefully this will evolve into a road map for those who wish to contribute but are having trouble getting started.
+We're going to do our best to document the experiences of newcomers to Perl, Parrot and Open Source software development. 
+Hopefully this will evolve into a road map for those who wish to contribute but are having trouble getting started.
 
 == Before you start ==
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 == Getting Parrot ==
 
-If your going to become part of the development team, you'll need to check out a local copy of the source code. You can visit the  [http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html download] page on the main Parrot web site for full details.
+If your going to become part of the development team, you'll need to check out a local copy of the source code. 
+You can visit the  [http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html download] page on the main Parrot web site for full details.
 
 Assuming you've got Perl, perldoc and Subversion installed you'll be doing something like this.
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  * `docs/gettingstarted.pod`
 
-The directyory `docs/book/` contains a book on Parrot. This book has a finer details of various aspects of Parrot.
+The directory `docs/book/` contains a book on Parrot. This book has a finer details of various aspects of Parrot. However be aware that the book in not up to date.
 
 After you read those, you'll want to run through all of the tutorials in `examples/tutorial`.