Subject: Re: "must have" packages
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 09:05:57 CDT
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 02:08 PM 8/24/01 -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> >At 03:24 PM 8/16/01 -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >>What I propose is that we (for packaging and other purposes) make a list of
> >>those features, platforms, and options that we find to be critical, and a
> >>"must have" for support. This can vary based on platform, distribution,
> >>etc... but they need to be in writing somewhere.
> >
> >Would anyone like to propose what our current set should be?
>
> To get the ball rolling, I'll go ahead and take a whack at this. The
> following proposal may be a bit controversial, but I think it's more-or-less
> on the money, and it should *certainly* spark a discussion.
>
> (( If you hate some part of this, fine, but bonus points go to anyone who
> puts in the thought required to come up with a more coherent proposal. ))
>
> Note that I'm only focusing on the packaging level, because that determines
> which users can easily download a binary package that Just Works for them.
> To be blunt:
>
> Very few users care about releases that they can't, uh, use.
>
> Once we've settled what those critical packages are, we can discuss
> particular feature/option variants.
>
> OK. Here goes...
>
> level one: must have
> ---------------------
> Judging from the user numbers on SourceForge, a minimum set would include:
>
> - the three source variants in my original message
> - Win32
We should also have at least one or more rpm. I volenteer to make RH 7.1
rpms of both GTK and Gnome builds from my platform.
BTW the
make release
for Red Hat rpms is broken. I have been using my own spec files based on a
set I got from Christian Schaller. If a makefile god knows how to
intergrate these into our build process that would be great.
The spec files should work on any rpm based distro. Should Ipost them
here?
Cheers
Martin
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