I like the Launchpad thing actually. :) I'd say: just go for it. We'll figure this stuff out as we go.
On Wednesday, 22 May 2013, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > To make this is not that I want to be on launchpad or whatever, just > found that it could be useful for some to be there. But I won't stand > on it if most think it is requiring too much works or is useless. > > - benoit > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Benoit Chesneau > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Noah Slater > > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> Hmm, okay. > >> > >> But add-apt-repository surely works with a regular URL too? > > > > yes > >> > >> What about Debian users? Can they use the same PPA? Or are we only > >> targeting Ubuntu for now? > >> > > > > It is apparently possible, but never tested. > > > > > > Why not to have both. Of course we should support debian. Diversity is > > important. I like the position of nginx about that. Actually the > > ubuntu ppa is unofficial but they add "may be more fitting for your > > environment." Which is the reason I think we could have both. Nginx > > also maintain its own debian repo. > > > > - benoit > > > > > >> > >> On 22 May 2013 20:51, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Noah Slater > >>> <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >>> > Does Ubuntu streamline the process of adding the PPA to your > >>> > /etc/apt/sources.list? > >>> > >>> yes, for ex: > >>> > >>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:couchdb/apache-couchdb > >>> > >>> done. > >>> > >>> It can also do the work for us when it's about building the package > >>> for the different ubuntu release. > >>> Again having a presence of launchpad may also be good for us in term of > >>> image. > >>> > >>> - benoit > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> NS > -- NS
