Re: [jokosher-devel] New runscript

["Frank Smith" <fhsmith tiscali co uk>]

I have been quiet for a long time, hoping....

Yes! on behalf of all users a working install on one distro is worth a 
thousand not quite working installs....

Others will follow once one is working.

Please

Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laszlo Pandy" <laszlok2 gmail com>
Cc: <jokosher-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [jokosher-devel] New runscript


> Stuart Langridge wrote:
> > 2. I don't think I have time to install five or six different distros
> > and learn how to install packages on them :(
>
> I'm thinking that near 50% of our users will be using Ubuntu. Also many
> people have come into the IRC channel and asked:
>
> I can't get Jokosher to work on my distro. Would it be easier if I
> installed it Ubuntu?
>
> Right now, our answer would have to be:
> No, it is *very difficult* on all distros because we didn't want to give
> special treatment to anyone, so you all have to suffer.
>
> I think that since we are giving special treatment to Ubuntu for
> everything else, and we have a ton of developers running ubuntu who
> could easily write and test an Ubuntu specific install script, we should
> make one.
>
> We should keep the current generic install script and make another
> Ubuntu Edgy specific install script. The latter should be written so
> that it can be modified for other distros, and if they want, members
> from those respective communities can support their distro.
>
> As for build dependencies on Ubuntu, would apt-get install
> build-essential deal with all of those?
>
> Laszlo
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