On Thu, March 24, 2011, David Chisnall wrote: > If you want decent packages, skip Linux and use FreeBSD - ports show up > a few days after each release and then it's just a matter of 'portinstall > gnustep' to get all of the dependencies and everything installed. Oh, > and you also get some nice bonuses like ZFS and sound that works without > buggy userspace sound daemons.
Now there's always a bit of a conflict between having the most recent GS code *OR* having a distro on which every GS-based application will always work. While using quite a few GS apps on my desktop installing a new GS version from the sources can mean having to recompile those apps, too. Using the apps from my distro does not really help because I can't be sure that my self-compiled bleeding-edge GS coexists with my distro's one. This is why I've surrendered and am now just using my distro's (old) GS packages - which basically means *NO* Etoile stuff. So what would be really useful for proper distro integration would be not only providing packages of the GS libraries but also the whole suite of GS-based applications built against the most recent version of the libraries. Coming from the Debian world I'd see this kind of approach as an "experimental" and unofficial apt repository. I don't know how the *BSD-guys do it, if 'portinstall gnustep' does all the stuff I'm talking about then this looks fairly attractive and probably means that they've got small upgrade cycles for packages and also an enthusiastic package maintainer who even has an eye at all the applications out there. However for most distros this is not the case. And given the fact that there are rather frequent changes in the GS libraries ordinary distro users will only see the older GS-apps for a long time until sometime in the future there is a major release of the Etoile code. Cheers, M'bert -- ----------- / http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org / ------------- =+= Wer bist du, ungezaehltes Frauenzimmer? Du bist - bist du? - Die Leute sagen, du waerest - lass sie sagen, sie wissen nicht, wie der Kirchturm steht. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
