On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2008 14:25:42 Matt Lawrence wrote: >> 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 suggestion comes up every so often, and I don't think it's going to go > anywhere this time either. You can use Zero Install on GoboLinux, of course, > and I think some people do.
I've always supported alternate package schemes under GoboLinux. I did some investigation into Zero Install many years ago. It should be easy to integrate today. The biggest limitation then was the lack of software available. I tried Autopackage as well and suffered the same problem. I had better luck with Klik. I have about 70% success rate. My biggest limitation then was my sat internet connection and klik didn't like the latency. >> This project has the ability to automatically fetch and install > dependencies. It also has other requirements for its binaries that match your >> requirements, such as the binary must be portable > This is *not* a requirement, and in general packages will not work if you move > them elsewhere. Sometimes they do, but it's not planned that way. > I think these generalized package tools would really benefit from an enchanced package selection. I would encourage they look at Compile. They would benefit from a tool that is truely prefix agnostic. If they can develop a community around a tool then the distros would benefit from adding support out of the box. That is how the real winner will emerge. Then commercial software will follow. This is an important next step for Linux. I hope GoboLinux can help. -- Carlo J. Calica _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
