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Remove references to obsolete "NDN Control Center" from INSTALL.rst

Added by Ju Pan over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

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0.50 h

Description

In the current version of NFD INSTALL document, the "Installing NFD from Binaries" section introduces NFD Control Center which is too old to use. The purpose of this task is to remove "Installing NFD from Binaries" section in order to avoid misleading beginners.

Actions #1

Updated by Davide Pesavento over 4 years ago

  • Start date deleted (08/21/2019)

Ju Pan wrote:

And empirically, people more tend to build from source.

That's highly debatable. You should install from source only if you know that you will do NFD development or otherwise need to modify the source code. This is especially true on Linux, where the PPA is well-maintained. For macOS, we should provide a Homebrew formula, but that's another task.

this task proposes to move "Installing NFD from Binaries" section to the end of the INSTALL document

Disagree with this.

add a warning for users who want to install NDN Control Center.

I'd say delete that part altogether. The old Control Center is too old to be useful to anyone, and there are no plans to update the new Control Center to provide precompiled NFD binaries AFAIK.

Actions #2

Updated by Ju Pan over 4 years ago

  • Assignee set to Wenkai Zheng
Actions #3

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Revise INSTALL document: move "Installing NFD from Binaries" section downward to Delete “Installing FND from Binaries”
Actions #4

Updated by Davide Pesavento over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Delete “Installing FND from Binaries” to Remove references to obsolete "NDN Control Center" from INSTALL.rst
  • Target version set to v0.7
Actions #5

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

The current version of installing NFD (in Binaries" section) still mention NFD controller which is too old to use. The purpose of this task is to remove information about NFD controller in order to avoid misleading begineers.

Actions #6

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

Ju Pan wrote:

The current version of the INSTALL document makes "Installing NFD from Binaries" section the very first paragraph. However, the NDN Control Center it introduces doesn't use the latest version of NFD and ndn-cxx. And empirically, people more tend to build from source. To not mislead beginners, this task proposes to move "Installing NFD from Binaries" section to the end of the INSTALL document and to add a warning for users who want to install NDN Control Center.

Actions #7

Updated by Ju Pan over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #8

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Code review
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #9

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 100 to 90
Actions #10

Updated by Wenkai Zheng over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Code review to Closed
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
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