On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg <si...@omniqueue.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk <cars...@maemo.org> wrote: >> > Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but only when >> > you're doing Debian and Debian only. > > Except it was built by Canonical for Ubuntu and is used by Linaro. But > perhaps those two things are "Debian" too? > >> >> OBS is different in many >> > different ways and allows a proper productization environment as well >> > as growing an organisation organically. > > What does that even mean? > I would also like to understand that, perhaps through the use of that layer on top of OBS which I had forgotten its name? Is there somewhere documentation to read about this?
>> >> I see, thanks for enlightening me. > > You're not enlightened, you've just gotten a perspective from one developer > on why they like what they like. To be frank, I just did not want to make Carsten angry and go with rot13 encrypted zip files so we actually have to use it ;-) > >> >> We should then look to add the >> missing features like Feature Planning (blueprint) and others from >> Launchpad, although we could just use the wiki for everything not >> build / commit stuff. > > NB - Not all of Launchpad is open source. I stand corrected. >> >> > >> > The choice has been made to go for OBS and RPM in Mer - we'll be in a >> > even longer cycle if we were to revert to Debian based things and it's >> > not obvious there'll be any benefit - I personally got bitten badly by >> > basing on Debian/Ubuntu in the first iteration of Mer. We're here now >> > and we have something that works and expertise in these areas. That's >> > the direction we're going in. >> > >> > (I swear, if we are going to have the RPM vs DEB talk, I'll propose we >> > switch to rot13 encrypted zip files and actually go ahead with it!) > > Ignorance is bliss. Well, deb lovers could always try and have their own deb'd meego as Robin noted. But if Qt Creator does take care of all the packaging for RPM and the upload to OBS, then I should not care about the underlying packaging system. -Sivan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
