On 21/07/06, Daniel Holbach <daniel holbach ubuntu com> wrote:
Hello Chris,
On Fr, 2006-07-21 at 10:25 +0100, Chris Brown wrote:
> Jono and Aq have both mentioned that portability is a goal for 0.2 and
> I dont think we should limit ourselves in packaging terms to
> traditional .deb and .rpm avenues.
this is why I think that jokosher should take care of that and not the
packaging. All the points I mentioned should IMHO be fixed upstream.
A
user who downloads the tarball and runs ./setup.py shouldn't have to do
anything. That will make packaging for all the distros super-easy as
well.
Thats the goal isnt it. :) However I dont think that users should be expected to have to download a tarball, unzip it and run a setup file. This can lead to problems such as users running programs from home directories, having to open a terminal window and execute a script (okay, nautilus should do this too) and other nasties. Only Gentoo ricers will want to do something like this :P
Are you at LRL this weekend? It would be good to discuss this at the BOF perhaps....
Regards
Chris