On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:45 +0530, ஆமாச்சு wrote: > > Anyway if you have some experiences in these, please share. > > (Koha has paid developers too) > today a popular Open Source Software would mean that it has to be > packaged & made readily available as binary for installation atleast > in > two family of distros - debian & fedora.
not necessarily. In the first place, as far as I know, developers rarely package their own apps. The packages are usually built by 3rd parties. Also a lot of apps do not have binaries - like django. Also since deployment in a framework like django is usually through virtualenv or buildout, the rpm/deb cannot be used. I have seen people trying to use the packaged version of django in Fedora and Ubuntu and it has been very frustrating for them. > > post development - building them to get the binaries for various > architectures & taking them to repos/ maintaining there or under > one's > own repo can be given some priority. > > -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
