I strongly disagree with this. I think it's good style to have
working distro build scripts in the code base. If you use a
distro with a package manager, you will always prefer to build
the software for the package manager rather than putting stuff
to /usr/local where you depend on often sloppily written
'uninstall' make targets.
Of course using a package manager is better than installing using "make
install". I think everyone agrees on that. But that doesn't mean the
files used by a package manager should be provided by the package
developer. That's what package maintainers are for.
Daniel is the maintainer of the "windowmaker-crm-git" package for Arch
Linux, and I'm the maintainer of a similar package. For Arch Linux, we
simply create a single build script file that automatically downloads,
compiles, and creates the package. It's stored in it's own version
control repository, as can be seen here:
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/windowmaker-crm-git
Updating it and building it for a new version of Window Maker is
incredibly simple.
I'm unfamiliar with the process of creating a package for Debian. Is it
that much different and harder compared to Arch Linux? Doesn't Debian
also have their own repository for the package build files? (maybe kix
can help answer)
Does any other software project provide the package build files for
different operating systems? (there aren't any that I know of)
Anyway, I see no need for the Window Maker developers to try to make
packages for different operating systems. That's what GNU Autotools is
for. Just announce that the current version of Window Maker is now
(0.95.1), and all of the package maintainers will start using that.
drcouzelis
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