Well, I don't share Richard's admiration for either Gnome or Ubuntu - especially not for Ubuntu. And not for Gnome in its increasing incarnation of the school of taking out all the useful functionality in order to make it easier to use. But the question is, if you think it is taking excessive work to deliver Rev in a distribution agnostic way, what work is that exactly? If you think it should only run on Ubuntu, what exactly would be done differently?
I think you would have to do stuff deliberately to make it not run on all distros. What applications can you think of that are distribution specific and will not run on others than the chosen one? Every app I have ever run has worked pretty much the same on any distro I've been using, and we are talking lots - Mandriva in most releases, Slitaz, DSL, Slackware and its derivatives including Zenwalk, Slax. Early versions of Red Hat, late versions of Fedora. Suse, in early and mid versions. The thing you need to watch out for is fonts, and window managers/ desktops. But every other application for Linux manages this, its a matter of doing things by the book. I run Gnome and KDE apps from Fluxbox or OpenBox, it is just not an issue. People talk about Linux proliferating distros. Yes, it has. But from the point of view of applications that are not integrated into the repositories, like Rev, that is just irrelevant. The issue for Rev is, does it want to be a professional developer's tool on Linux, or does it want to be a hobbyist or amateur's tool, on account of the compromises using it on Linux requires. That's the choice, and you can't evade it. Discussion of which distros to support is a complete distraction. Its not the issue. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Linux-deployment-tp1370414p1393654.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
