Document dependencies with links to projects

[sjlongland]

Hi,

Can we please better document the dependencies? I thought I'd quickly throw this package on, but the installation turned into a game of whack-a-mole as each unmet dependency revealed itself. Not fun given I had to sort out scons-related breakage due to the build scripts not being compatible with Python 3.

Host system is Ubuntu 20.04 AMD64.

• iostream header does not get located, yet I have libstdc++-9-dev which installs that file at /usr/include/c++/9/iostream -- for now I've just commented out that check, but it would seem that maybe there's an undeclared dependency somewhere?
• lash-1 is stated as a dependency, but no link to where you get it from.

The latter one is pretty insidious. Google is no help:

I'd like to give this project a honest try, but I suspect it's fallen into a state of bitrot now.

[nickbailey]

Lash is dead. Check out the no-lash branch. I'll merge it into the main one when the testing's finished. It also works with Python 3.

iostream is a pretty core C++ thing. I've no idea about that one!

I'll take a look at the deps when I have time. Probably after I've merged it into main. Like everyone else, I don't have too much time to maintain this package right now. Maybe after the CD's out...