Martin Dietze <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, March 24, 2011, Ivan Vučica wrote: > >> From my experience as a multiyear Debian user, with Debian, packages are >> also released as soon as they are ready. Person switches to "unstable" >> and that's it. One can also use "experimental" for individual bleeding >> edge packages. But, "unstable" is just that -- unstable. > > I, like many other Debian users, usually run on 'testing'. > The package policy is still pretty conservative, i.e. there's > hardly any bleeding-edge stuff. Now I can install some > particular packages from 'unstable', selectively. This often > does not work since they may depend on other stuff which is not > available on 'testing' (there were times when some of the base > libraries were available in incompatible versions on 'testing' > and 'unstable'). Also sometimes packager change some of the > structure from 'unstable' to 'testing', i.e. a library package > is split into several smaller ones etc. This makes running a > large set of libraries and applications like the GS suite > installed from 'unstable' on a 'testing' system unfeasable. Even > if it works, you need quite a bit of expertise to install it. > > Thus I see no alternative to providing packages for the > different distros on a central repository. With the current > approach on Linux we're stuck on either running outdated > versions provided by our distros or compiling GS and all that > depends on it by hand. After having done the second for years > and having invested far too much time in updating sources, > compiling them, finding things not working etc., I've switched > back to the first approach which means no GS playtime for me. > > Projects like Etoile introduce some quite attractive stuff based > on GS. But since it usually depends on the very latest GS > library code and for the reasons I described above it is de > facto not available to 95% of all Linux users. Even if only a > smaller part is 'desktop-ready' this means that GS as a platform > gets far less attention than it deserves. > > Cheers, > > M'bert
I'm a Debian user too since 6 years. I agree with everything abowe. For me the only solution is to use FreeBSD because I want develope using GNUstep, however I wish that that Debian change somehow so one can use GNUstep and Étoilé on Debian with recent software. -- Regards, Paul <http://csanyi-pal.info> _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
