installation is onerous - multiple issues

[duanev]

Been trying to install but have run into numerous issues:

• git https should be used for all subprojects: not all of us have ssh connections (Git submodule update throws error #48), and not all of us are leet github users (I shouldn't have to generate a key to checkout a readonly copy)

• needs to work with python3

• needs to work with non Ubuntu distros (CentOS? Arch?)

• needs to work with an Ubuntu version other than 14.04? (is this the thrift gen-cpp issue I hit below?)

• the dependency tree is huge (multiple fonts, ipython??, etc.) ... onerous

Currently, on Ubuntu 16.04 p4factory/install_tmp/thrift-0.9.2/lib/cpp/test fails:

gen-cpp/proc_types.cpp:17:1: error: 'MyError' does not name a type
 MyError::~MyError() throw() {
 ^
gen-cpp/proc_types.cpp:21:6: error: 'MyError' has not been declared
 void MyError::__set_message(const std::string& val) {
      ^
... (several more)
Makefile:1024: recipe for target 'gen-cpp/proc_types.lo' failed

But finally I ran across this post: http://lists.p4.org/pipermail/p4-dev_lists.p4.org/2017-March/000794.html Perhaps the new hotness should be mentioned at the top of the p4factory README so we don't all go through this first?