World: r3wp

ok, that exists. progress!

those are the git build dependencies as marked in ubuntu packages:
https://gist.github.com/9cb86c37385fb66f9016

(all ubuntu package names)

compile goes a long way... blows out at http fetch.

try `make NO_CURL=1`

is git-http-fetch necessary?

Not really. Only if you want to access repositories via http:// or 
https://.You can live fine without that.

rebuilding with NO_CURL=1

This build is much bigger than I would have guessed.Linus and I have 
different definitions of "simple".

ok build complete, let's see if it runs...

The system itself is simple. Comes with a load of features, though.

(For many of which Linus' not the one to blame :)

ok, time to try the git on your url... scanning back.

git clone git://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit.git

worked

lovely

now how old is your freebsd :) ?

based on your ubuntu, it's probably 5.4 :) ?

So, that clone gave me a full local repository, right? So, I can 
mess around with it... to get to know it?

Exactly!

No, I can't get away with that on freebsd. I think it's newer.

Probably updated it about 2 months ago.

I'd really suggest updating your Ubuntu at least to the previous 
LTS (8.04).

But that's another story :)

Yes, we use 8.xx on our servers.

So, what are git templates?

Huh?

git init --template=... ?

git gives me a warning that templates are not found in my git-core 
dir

perhaps because I did not install it, just running it local to my 
acct

yeah, that's most likely the case.

not proper env

I thought that this thing is going to be easy? :-)

In linux, as long as you don't need to recompile the kernel, it is 
considered easy.

Actually, that's prob considered easy too... since Linuxers do it 
for breakfast.

Anyway, I've got something to try out now on Linux, which is good. 
 For systems that might never run git, perhaps Andreas knows how 
to use git to auto-build gzips that we can have posted on the github.

No need to.

Github automatically builds tarballs and zipballs for you.

Great! Makes it easy.

:)

For example:
http://github.com/rebolsource/r3-hostkit/tarball/master

Instead of the final /master you can specify any tagname, branchname, 
or even revision name.

Very useful.

Ok, so I've read through gittutorial(7) ... and tried out various 
commands here... seems reasonable.

Encouraging!

What would be nice is to boil that tutorial down to just the 1, 2, 
3 steps that most R3 developers would need to know.

Agreed.

Be sure to include the right settings to choose for the Windows installer.

So, for github, would each developer have their own repository on 
that site?

Would be a possibility, yes.