Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of NewParrotDeveloperGuide

Timestamp:

12/10/08 17:09:49 (5 years ago)

Author:

gaurav

Comment:

'perl-doc' is the name of the Debian/Ubuntu package, not the program itself. Replaced and clarified.

NewParrotDeveloperGuide

@@ -8 +8 @@
 
  * [http://perl.org Perl]
- * perl-doc
+ * [http://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc.html perldoc] (provided by package {{{perl-doc}}} on Debian/Ubuntu).
  * [http://subversion.tigris.org/ subversion]
  * [http://freshmeat.net/projects/diffstat/ diffstat]
@@ -16 +16 @@
 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. You'll need to make sure you have the following already installed on your machine.
 
-Assuming you've got Perl, perl-doc and Subversion installed you'll be doing something like this.
+Assuming you've got Perl, perldoc and Subversion installed you'll be doing something like this.
 
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@@ -46 +46 @@
 == Learning Parrot ==
 
-You've downloaded, configured, compiled, tested and created the html documentation for Parrot. Now it's time to start reading. Parrots source documentation is stored in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Documentation POD] format. If you ran make html you can the view the documentation as html. The file docs/html/index.html is the place to start. An alternative and more flexible method for viewing the documentation is to use [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Perldoc/lib/perldoc.pod perl-doc] to view the actual pod files. Perldoc will allow you to view the pod files formated as man pages. It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to read the documentation for this project.
+You've downloaded, configured, compiled, tested and created the html documentation for Parrot. Now it's time to start reading. Parrots source documentation is stored in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_Documentation POD] format. If you ran make html you can the view the documentation as html. The file docs/html/index.html is the place to start. An alternative and more flexible method for viewing the documentation is to use [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Perldoc/lib/perldoc.pod perldoc] to view the actual pod files. Perldoc will allow you to view the pod files formated as man pages. It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to read the documentation for this project.
 
 The bare minimum reading needed to get you off the ground is: