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Andi..
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jared Rhine wrote:
[Heikki == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:28:13 -0700]
Heikki> Our currently supported Linux flavor is Fedora Core 2, while Heikki> FC4 is just about to come out. I believe this time around Heikki> we should do more of a market driven approach.
I feel it would be advantageous to do things "the Linux way" and really support the Linux distributions' mechanisms for packaging and distributing software.
In short, the biggest momentum and goodwill will come from having:
(Debian) apt-get install chandler (Debian) apt-get install chandler-dev (Gentoo) emerge chandler (Gentoo) emerge chandler-svn (Fedora) yum install chandle
and so on.
The packaging should be done via a liaison program with volunteer packagers representing the various distributions (jumpstarted if necessary with in-house packaging). Leave it those people to arrive at specific dependency trees specific to their distribution, and create distribution-specific patches as necessary to support a high-quality build on their platform.
Packagers also typically form a core base of open-source contributors; they come to know the package intimately, and often provide functional patches for their distribution that they feed "upstream" back to OSAF.
Building binary distributions is great, but very challenging to support in a dynamic Linux environment. If you pick an official set, you'll always get flak from people outside those distributions, will always be playing catchup with changing distributions, and will have lower market penetration numbers than if the package is simply provided using binary-only distributions.
Simply providing "how to build Chandler on Linux" instructions is not sufficient going forward. Real adoption will come from being able to run apt-get/emerge/yum/etc making it a no-hassle install for lots of people all at once.
If desired, I can discuss my personal opinions about which specific Linux distributions have the most momentum and which would form a reasonable set for binary distributions, though the point of my thoughts above is orthogonal to that issue.
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