Re: Packaging formats

[bighead <bighead crosswinds net>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Sarel J. Botha wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> I was just reading a bit of the stuff at www.helixcode.com. In particular:
> 
> The Helix GNOME Desktop ships with several powerful applications, including
> a file manager; GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program; Dia, a
> diagram-creation program; and Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet. 
> 
> Now for someone thinking of switching over from another Desktop
> Environment this would sound really silly. It looks like there are only 4
> programs that work on GNOME. I know this is not the case but it looks that
> way, and if you were to tell someone there were a bunch of apps at
> www.gnome.org it wouldn't help them much because it could be so tricky to
> compile them.
> 
> What's the answer to that problem? Packaging of course. Another problem of
> packaging though is the many standards. I'm only aware of .deb and .rpm but
> I believe there are many others too.
> 
> My proposal:
> A packaging system designed to be 100% rpm, deb and
> anything-else-compatible. In other words I compile my program once and it
> can be installed on all the different distributions out there using their
> native packaging mechanism. I know there are problems between distros like
> /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc but this system could address them as well.
> 
> I'm definitely not experienced enough to undertake designing something like
> this but I'll definitely help.
> 
> -- 
> ------------------
> Sarel Botha
> sjb@dundee.lia.net
> ------------------
> 
> 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code,
>           fix one bug, compile it again...
>           101 little bugs in the code....
> 
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I think thats why we have the true universal packaging format

"foo.tar.gz"

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