On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to pool in some ideas to develop a methodology of > making "portable" application, its requirements, packaging, > development framework and the such? When you build from source, a well designed 'make install' will put everything under the /usr/local/ dir. structure. A similar philosophy could be adopted for your scenario. The problem is with the other OSs or rather convincing their powers to be, to put in place, a similar structure. > I will pool in whatever ideas I have tried and implemented > successfully and unsuccessfully in the past. > > Most of the installation nowadays spray files all over the place and > sometimes "pollute" the installed base. Are you referring to all OSs in general or a specific OS? -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
