Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-08 Thread I. Soumpasis
2009/5/7 Prasenjit Kapat kap...@gmail.com Another issue: Will rkward compiled against KDE 4.2.x work on KDE 4.1.x? Probably not! I will keep the 8.10 32bit and 64bit installations for some time more due to some python bugs. So I offer myself on compiling for 8.10 and KDE 4.1.x and ubuntu's

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-08 Thread meik michalke
On Thursday 07 May 2009 18:24:17 Prasenjit Kapat wrote: I'll use these short hands for brevity: R == generally behind latest R release, rkw == generally behind latest Rkward release, +R == latest R +rkw == latest Rkward on KDE4 +rkw3 == latest Rkward on KDE3 UR == Official Ubuntu R Urkw ==

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-07 Thread I. Soumpasis
2009/5/6 Thomas Friedrichsmeier thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de The launchpad for ubuntu idea suggested by Prasenjit sounds good to me. I think it probably makes sense to use distribution-specific mechanisms like this as well, as long as the Binaries and Build Scripts page has the

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-06 Thread meik michalke
hi, gosh, i totally forgot to comment on this one: am Freitag, 1. Mai 2009 (03:43) schrieb Prasenjit Kapat: OK, I am just floating an idea out - why not go for a Launchpad+PPA archive for all the (K)Ubuntu related packages. It may be governed by a group of volunteer packagers who use

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-01 Thread Pierre-Yves
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 23:40 +0200, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: Hi, I've wanted to put this to discussion for quite some time, but never got around to writing this mail. Here it comes: By now a nice number of people is producing binary packages of the rkward releases for various

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-05-01 Thread I. Soumpasis
2009/4/30 Thomas Friedrichsmeier thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de So how to handle this? 1) Upload all contributed packages to the sourceforge download page. In case this is your favorite, there's a catch, though: I'd like to delegate most of the work to another person. Making

[rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, I've wanted to put this to discussion for quite some time, but never got around to writing this mail. Here it comes: By now a nice number of people is producing binary packages of the rkward releases for various distributions and architectures. That is a wonderful thing, and I really

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-04-30 Thread Germán Márquez Mejía
Hi El 30/04/09 16:40, Thomas Friedrichsmeier escribió: 1) Upload all contributed packages to the sourceforge download page. In case this is your favorite, there's a catch, though: I'd like to delegate most of the work to another person. Making file-releases is a cumbersome process, already,

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-04-30 Thread meik michalke
hi thomas, am Donnerstag, 30. April 2009 (23:40) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: I have the hint of a bad feeling about distributing contributed binaries. i can fully understand that. if a packager makes a mistake, it will probably not fall back to him/her, but the project. It seems to me

Re: [rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

2009-04-30 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
Hi, On 4/30/09, meik michalke meik.micha...@uni-duesseldorf.de wrote: hi thomas, am Donnerstag, 30. April 2009 (23:40) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: I have the hint of a bad feeling about distributing contributed binaries. i can fully understand that. if a packager makes a mistake, it