I've brought this up before. Current versions of Eric are unavailable in the package repos of any distro. This means it must be manually installed, which makes using anything other than old versions a non-starter in any Enterprise environment. And Eric seems to always require dependencies that don't line up with anything in a standard distro, which again makes it a non-starter in many programming shops (were they insist on having common package lineups, for very good support reasons).
Just getting this into things like Ubuntu backports (for example) would solve all those problems. Being sensitive to package lineups in key distros would be an added plus. Can you do all that manual work? Sure: I've done it. But the other 99% of the market base for this tool won't or can't (because of the restrictions above). For the Dans of the world that is no problem: he didn't spend countless hours developing Eric. But I would guess (maybe wrongly) that the people who DID spend those countless hours would like to see this wonderful tool very widely used. Dan Bullok wrote: > > Just to let you know Detlev, I disagree with just about everything in Arlo's > message. -- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates http://www.linkedin.com/in/bigbaaadbob _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
