Re: [jokosher-devel] Jokosher 0.1 Ubuntu package

["Chris Brown" <snecklifter gmail com>]

Hello Daniel,

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.

I've mailed the list about this:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/jokosher-devel-list/2006-July/msg00088.html

As for moving .py files into a separate directory, this really is the job of packaging ie. to place files correctly when installed. Developers should not have to worry about this.

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