On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:22 -0600, Stephen Houston wrote : > > On Jan 25, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Albin Tonnerre > <albin.tonne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:07 -0600, Stephen Houston wrote : > >> > >>On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> > >>wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>>On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Stephen Houston wrote: > >>> > >>>>I don't think this is a problem... If we are interested in > >>>>widespread > >>>>use of our software, then packages/packagers are an > >>>>essential part of > >>>>the process. > >>> > >>>it's not our job to package our libs and binaries... It's the job of > >>>the package managers of the different distros. They have their own > >>>repositories. > >>> > >>>Vincent > >>Bit of a different situation when it's software in a versioning > >>control tree that is constantly changing and hasn't been released in > >>10 years. > > > >Please, let's not turn this into yet another release-related > >troll. Several > >distributions have official packages for e17. Even though they > >don't provide all > >the applications that are in SVN, I think that's a pretty good > >step forward. > Ummm? Chill out. No one is asking when or questioning whether the > software should be released. Slow down and read what I said in > context. Due to the fact of the release circumstances, it makes > packaging a different situation. Completely relevant.
I've been maintaining all the EFL-related package in Debian for the past 2 years. Believe me, I completely understand what it's like dealing with this situation. While I acknowledge that this used to be a PITA (things improved quite a bit recently), I'm pretty convinced that maintaing my packages in the SVN would have made my work even harder. Regards, -- Albin Tonnerre
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