doc/api/helium/help.html
author Simon Howkins <simonh@symbian.org>
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:01:59 +0000
changeset 825 1de547e13d13
parent 432 f2ddfa555b0f
permissions -rw-r--r--
Updates to make the build environment check more reasonable: Mercurial v1.3 permitted The Java compiler is not a showstopping issue 7-zip can be installed in any location Update to Helium 5 Helium can be installed in PDT 1.*, not necessarily 1.0 Raptor installation path not significant Update to Raptor 2.9.* The Raptor patch to update the bundled version of python is no longer relevant BRAG calculations updated to ignore items not being in the system path, as this just doesn't matter. Overall effect is that the build environment check should pass on a machine that is able to do a build!




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