Michael Jennings wrote: > On Thursday, 14 June 2007, at 09:28:53 (-0700), > Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > >> jeez, you always have to put things in such positive terms, doncha? >> the LSB packaging people are just responding to what they've been >> told, which is that there are plenty of people who have reasons why >> they don't want to use rpm (or deb) for their products. the most >> common reason is that they deploy something across more platforms >> than just Linux, and for both support/docu and user experience >> reasons they want the same installer interfaces across those >> platforms rather than supporting multiple "OS native" installers. > > Not likely. InstallShield probably has a good 90+% of the ISV > installer market, and they have supported RPM since 2004.
InstallShield "supports" RPM, but many ISVs don't use that support because the software in question is also released for solaris and Windows. So they use common installation scripts for the whole system that have nothing to do w/ RPM packages. (The horror of InstallShield..........) --Mark > Michael > ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
