hi ya "geda CDerz"
i deleted the email about "somebody, please put geda into knoppix"
( my fat fingers )
i think, like all things, it either takes time or knowledge or $$$$
and lots of "testing" ...
- if the cd works good .. people will use it
- if its too buggy, we'd be wasting our time/energy
- we'd need to make a good/reasonable effort vs
haphazzard slap it together efforts
if there is enough people in SF bay area, i have plenty of
hardware we can install various flavors of linux and test
and generate "free" eda CDs
- test on fedora core3, slackware, redhat-ws3, suse-9.x
( support/test distro's where customers has checks in hand
( for their services they're looking for
and for fun, debian-testing
( that'd be at least 5 boxes to build and test/use )
- "people" and do the "testing" remotely too
- making bootable cd's is relatively trivial
- making it install into any random users system
and that it works purrfectly is NON-trivial
- i go on the assumption, that the user was happy
with their box, and we should NOT change their
libs or other apps to make geda isntall and work on
their box .. ( bad idea to change it for them ... )
- a standalone cd is best way to do it, and also it'd just
need to symlink to "/home/geda" for some working area
- its a super long weekend ...
- if anybody is game to build some boxes and
distribute free eda CD's ... i'm game
- if it's my choice .. i'd use slackware ... as it turns
out that it works with just about "every app"
i play with, while pre-packaged *.rpm or *.deb might be
work if it install/work the first time, but, if not,
it's not worth the time/energy to have made the *.rpm or *.deb
tarball always works/install on most any distro/environment
( with few whacky exceptions )
c ya
alvin
