[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] INSTALL: Add download links for requirements

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/07/2016 11:06 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
> It is much easier and faster to give the user the prerequite software links
> rather than having them find the software themselves. This patch adds these
> links to the INSTALL document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <programmingkidx at gmail.com>
> ---
>  INSTALL | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index 3a0eb2c..dafc8e8 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ Earliest tested versions of major components:
>  
>  A more detailed dependency list can be found in virt-manager.spec.in.
>  
> +Downloading requirements:
> +- python 2: https://www.python.org/downloads/ *use 2.x version
> +- gtk3: http://www.gtk.org/download/index.php
> +- libvirt-python: https://libvirt.org/downloads.html *comes with libvirt
> +- pygobject3: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject
> +- libosinfo: https://libosinfo.org/
> +
>  On Debian or Ubuntu based distributions, you need to install the
>  gobject-introspection bindings for some depedencies like libvirt-glib
>  and libosinfo. Look for package names that start with 'gir', for example
> 

Thanks for the patch, but I don't really want this. All those links are a
google search away, and the vast majority of users aren't going to be grabbing
releases from upstream sites and instead just getting them from their
distribution. My aim is to keep the INSTALL file small and targeted and not go
down the route of providing every bit of info that could possible be required.

- Cole