Re: [jokosher-devel] New runscript

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

On 11/13/06, Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

No, but the apt-get build-dep command I gave in IRC will.

I didn't want to favour Ubuntu because
(a) I use it
(b) Jono works for Canonical
(c) it would look like favouritism
(d) it's sort of against the inclusive nature of the community

but I am the first to concede that it will make it easier. So, I
solicit opinions. What do list members think about the idea of making
a script to make it easy to install Jokosher 0.2 by getting and
compiling gstreamer CVS *that only works on Ubuntu*, and just
providing instructions (as we do currently) for other distributions?
I'm particularly interested in how non-Ubuntu users would feel about
this.

sil

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