Hey guys, On Saturday, March 21, 2015, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 21.03.2015 um 12:14 schrieb David Chisnall: > > On 20 Mar 2015, at 22:29, Gregory Casamento > > <greg.casame...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > >> > >> BTW, one thing I've been thinking of doing lately is creating > >> "rpm" and "deb" repositories so that we can distribute our own > >> packages in a fashion similar to how the mono project does. > > > > It's been a while since I ran Linux, but I found this kind of thing > > from upstream to be highly counter-productive. The dependencies are > > always subtly wrong in the third-party repos (because different > > distros name things slightly differently, even between forks from the > > same base) and it reduces the incentive for distros to create their > > own packages. > > I tend to agree with David here. Abstract packages are of no use. We > will need packages for specific distributions and we already have those > for a few systems. If we really need more it would be rather easy to > extend, for example, the Open Build Service setup for GNustep > (https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=X11%3AGNUstep) to > include more repositories, as they call distributions. Of course this is > only useful if somebody takes over the responsibility for these new > distributions. As David already pointed out there are always some subtle > changes that need to be taken care of for each distribution. > > Fred I see both of your points and agree. GC -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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