On 31/01/11 00:32, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Little bit trickier when putting on a ISV hat and trying to target >> > all Linux distros > One binpkg for all distros ?! The whole idea of this is stupid. > Some of my customers didn't listen to me and tried that at any > cost, they failed miserably. I haven't the slightest bit if pity ;-o > Dare I suggest you take a look at lilypond? Free Software. And that is precisely what they ship - a single package that will install on any distro!
The system is called GUB (for Grand Universal Binary). And it's pretty successful. I'm not sure to what extent it's lilypond-specific - I know it's not *meant* to be, but as they are the only project I know of that use it, there's a good chance there are a fair few lilypond-isms in it. And lilypond is a big mix of things, it's mostly written in Scheme, but has a lot of low-level code written in C++, used to invoke latex, uses ghostscript, has a chunk of python or perl or some other scripting language in there. Etc etc. So one binary for all distros isn't that unachievable ... :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice