Hi. I would first of all like to congratulate all of you on not just being "yet another Linux distro". You guys have contributed so much more than the vast majority of distributions out there and I wish you and your distribution well.
For your benefit, I would like to draw your attention to another project, namely Zero Install. This project has the ability to automatically fetch and install dependencies. It also has other requirements for it's binaries that match your requirements, such as the binary must be portable and in a common archive format (though Zero Install can use other package formats). Hopefully using Zero Install would also help you distribute a wider variety of up-to-date software to your users, which would make your distribution even more appealing. I say this because Zero Install and Autopackage plan to co-operate in order to create packages which can be used with either method of installation, which could provide even more packages that could be run on your system. Even if you choose not to use Zero Install, maybe the shared format could be used with your distribution and symbolize a whole new level of co-operation between installation methods. As for other features, it has digital signatures, automatic updating, non-root installation and more. I'm sure this could be tightly integrated with your system. If I am wrong and this idea is completely useless to you, I apologize sincerely for wasting your time. Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
