That is good to hear. And I imagine that putting them up on the jsoftware site will also be a goal?
Thank you, -- Raul On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:47 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > There are debian packages for j801 beta, putting them to official debian > repos will be a final goal, but not yet ready. > > www.jsoftware.com/download/jqt > On Jan 15, 2014 9:26 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does anyone know if there is any work on doing a debian package for J? >> >> I do not see anything obvious at >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ but that does not >> necessarily mean anything. >> >> I used to be a debian developer (for that matter, I helped design the >> packaging system and was on the technical committee for a time). I got >> out because of a mix of severe lack of time due to "real life issues", >> and because every time I stated doing something someone else would >> jump in and release a version of what I was working on. >> >> I think things are quite a bit more locked down now. If I were to do >> the debian submission process myself, I would probably need to >> generate a new pgp key, and get it signed by people. But if there's no >> activity on packaging J, it's not all that difficult to do. >> >> And another possibility might be to put together the package and let >> someone else run it through the submission process. >> >> That said, there would also be the issue of what should be packaged. >> Since any new package would be going into unstable, I imagine that a >> j8 instance would be best? [Subject to change, after feedback from >> people at debian, of course.] >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
