On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:13AM +1000, Cameron Blackwood wrote: > > Hi, long time reader, first time caller... (well ok, second time :) > > James Paige writes: > | > | > On Tue, 8 May 2007, James Paige wrote: > | > > > | > > When packaging for Linux, you should NOT be trying to bundle in a copy > | > > of python and pygame and all other dependencies. You should instead > use > | > > a packaging format which simply describes the packages/versions that > it > | > > depends on. The package manager handles the rest. > > To james I say..... > > Ive had nightmares with rpm's and even a couple of problems with > ebuilds. You download 26M of ogre/pyogre only to find you need to forward > your version of libfoo.rpm. Oh, but that breaks your appbar.rpm. Oh and I > need to upgrade my glibc.rpm. Again. :-/ > > Frankly, getting dependany stuff sorted for pyweek is a nightmare > (even under gentoo, gentoo often rolls their packages forward too > quickly so older, slower to update libraries have dependancy stuff > that isnt around in portage any more). > > For linux, people seem to 'chase' the 100% latest version of some of > these libraries, which is ok for slowly changing ones, but it sucks > for ones that have a version a week. > > Windows doesnt have the dependancy problem that linux has (or the > constant version increases) but unless you have a compiler > you're stuck with the packages that you can _find_, which arnt always > easily available. *cough* pygame-1.8 */cough* :) > > Getting ogre and some of the bigger libraries compiled on linux is, > and Ill be nice here, not exactly easy. Oh and I work as a linux sysadmin. > Yes I could have sat there for hours and worked it out, but you know, > to tryout/run _one_ pyweek entry, it really wasnt worth it. > > (And before you ask, this was on a gentoo system... it didnt complain > about dependancy errors, it just failed to build 1/2 way through. > Yay!)
Interesting. I used to use RPMs on Redhat back in the 1999-2001 range, but I gave it up because of dependency hell-- I had simply assumed that the Fedora Project had solved those problems since then. I have been using Debian and/or Ubuntu ever since. .deb based packaging systems are always really good about keeping old versions of libraries available... I'm having a hard time thinking of a single instance of dependency problems in my entire .deb experience that didn't involve a manually-installed program... Perhaps I was mistaken to say that .rpm and .ebuild are just as good as .deb... --- James Paige