I definitely agree with that. I think I said things to that effect in an email yesterday, but not so explicitly: Stop worrying about install scripts, because every distro pkg format will require major adaptation anyway. And, as you just pointed out, figuring out how to package a piece of software is excellent quality control exercise in and of itself. -Adam
"David F. Skoll" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 27 May 2011 16:23:30 -0500 >Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My point was that effectively, because of the way installs work right >> now, build deps and installed deps are the same thing. If it's >> impossible to install without building something anyway then relying >> on make is presently OK. > >Yes, sure, but I think a worthy goal is a version of LedgerSMB that >can be packaged as a deb or RPM package. I've been through the wars >of building binary packages for Debian, Fedora, Red Hat and (bleh) >Solaris and I find that preparing a piece of software for packaging >can improve it and clarify dependencies. > >Regards, > >David. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. >With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, >you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. >Download your free trial now. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 >_______________________________________________ >Ledger-smb-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
