On Mar 26 avril 2005 15:44, Mathias Bauer a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> And by not providing native packages I don't necessarily mean not >> providing native packages at the OO.o level but not creating an >> environment where other people can easily provide them. > > Fine, why didn't you mention this in the first place? Would have saved > us a lot of time. :-) I'm afraid I did state it clearly in the fedora-devel thread someone quoted at the start of this one, and it was then drowned under arguments on the need of doing native packages (OO.o own packages having all sorts of wonderful properties) The plain fact is native packages put the burden of figuring out different packaging systems on developpers, and app-specific packages put the burden of figuring app-specific stuff on the end-users. Simple math (end-users >> developpers) shows what system scales better even if it sucks because that's more work for upstream projects. And when I write developpers here I mean "the people that provide software to end-users". I does not mean native packaging should be taken care of by the people who write the extensions, just that this service must be taken care of by someone in the software-producing chain, in our case some group within oo.o, that can be partly composed by people coming from distributions. You wouldn't expect translation or documentation to be taken care of by extensions writers themselves would you ? This does not mean it's a good idea to ask end-users to do this work themselves either. -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
