Re: [jokosher-devel] New runscript

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

On 11/14/06, Robert McWilliam <rmcw allmail net> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:53:30 +0000
> "Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org> wrote:
> > Cool. Everyone seems happy with that, so I'll go for making the script
> > Ubuntu-specific. We'll point non-Ubuntu people at the cvsgstreamer
> > instructions as before. Cheers for the input, all!
> >
>
> What about it is going to be ubuntu specific? Is it just the getting
> dependencies? If so would it be possible to have the rest of the script
> still usable on other distros?

Probably. My plan is basically to add:

if on_ubuntu:
 if not check_dependencies(BUILD_DEPS_LIST):
   gksudo apt-get install REQUIRED_DEPENDENCIES

and tell people "you can use the script, but you'd better make sure
you have all the following stuff installed first: $BUILD_DEPS_LIST,
otherwise it won't work and will crash".

sil


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