Documentation and general info

[leojrfs]

Please create some documentation and info about the development environment needed.
That will make easier for anyone to contribute.

[sjackman]

Hi Leo. Can you elaborate on your question? My development environment is ruby, vim and zsh, but I'm guessing that's not your question.

[leojrfs]

for example, instructions to setup a development environment, distro, version etc...

[sjackman]

Use a recent version of Ubuntu and install the build-essential package.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

[MikeMcQuaid]

@sjackman Updating the README might not be a bad call if you can be bothered.

[leojrfs]

👍

[sjackman]

It's rather distro agnostic at the moment. Ubuntu was just a suggestion. It will work just as well on Debian or Fedora. All you need is a Linux distribution and a C compiler

[MikeMcQuaid]

Sure. I guess my point was if you put even that "Linux distro and C compiler" and detail build-essential then more people will be able to a) contribute and b) improve the README. Happy to give it a go myself later.

[sjackman]

Sure, Mike. The most sensible format I'd say would be one section per Linux distribution specifying a list of packages that should be installed, such as build-essential for Debian and Ubuntu.

[sjackman]

Debian or Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git ruby

[sjackman]

Thanks, Mike.