On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 21:06 +1000, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote: > But I meant for Windows. Yeah, it seems I misunderstood the meaning of your previous sentence <:) > Rui, if you can get fedora, Suse and Mandrake to package us this way I > would be *really* grateful. Right now, Fedora has AbiWord-2.0.5 which > lacks about 100 bug fixes compared to our 1 month old Abiword-2.0.7 I did it once, but then savannah was cracked :| > I fear we will have to use our resources to distrubte Gnome-Office until > we can train all the upstream distros to properly maintain us. I think that if we made really good packages that could integrate directly with distribution's repo's would be better than maintaining our own. For starters, I could see what I would have to change in order to fit better the fedora.us and freshrpms/dag repositories. > For example Mandrake doesn't even include us in their mainline distro. If > you can convince them to distribute us I would be very grateful. This I pretty much doubt. I've never even used Mandrake... > So although I meant "For Windows" it would actually be very nice to have a > nice graphical installer for Linux which would automatically do the right > thing for every distro (or at least all the most common ones.) synaptic is what you want (or a similar application). Single installers are for the brain-dead-no-package-sense-Windows world and should be avoided at all costs. Rui
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