On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:51:57 -0500, Pat wrote in message <20121127215157.0f27252b@spinnaker>:
> For me the question is not so much how to get there, but where do we > want to go and who's going to make the effort. ..that will be decided meritocratically by whoever codes something that's more than good enough for the rest of us. > >From reading this thread and others, a lot of work done on > managing the release process. Is there still some work to do in the > area of builds for various audiences? ..some, yes, IMO mostly pieceing together e.g. the buildscripts I suggested, with distro specific packaging scripts. The latter are usually (IME rpm in my Red Hat days) capable of producing the "right" binaries from your git etc FG source tree, and can be installed alongside the official distro's FG, with non-conflicting binary names a la /usr/bin/arnt's-fgfs-wo-jpg-factory if this brl-cad.org binary nameing idea survived FG's move to cmake. ..so for each distro release, we may want a "stable release", a "bleading edge", and a "last night's bug hunter build", which is why we should automate this scheme, if we even think of trying it. > Which distros have flightgear and what version do they have in their > repositories? ..most general use "desktop" distros, and they usually go with the lates stable release, in the Debian Stable case, we're even more paranoid, flightgear-1.9.1-1.1+b1, you need to upgrade to the development release (always Debian Sid) where we now have flightgear-2.6.0-1. ..special use distros usually don't, unless "special use" happens to be "gaming", "flight simulation", "flightgear" or "flightgear development." ;o) > Where did the package for Ubuntu come from? ..not sure, Debian Sid would be my guess. > Who built the package? Who maintains it? ..in Debian and Ubuntu, Ove Kaaven: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/games/flightgear > Is there a way to manage packaging across distros? ..not _a_, but _many_ ways. Debian probably has the best (and biggest) pile of tools to do this, I have this vision of somebody running this virtual build-n-test cluster off his git tree from a laptop, or some such. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
