On Sep 13, 2010, at 16:56 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> Perhaps you are not familiar with the OSX installation process. It is >> extremely simple. You drag the application into the Applications folder and >> you are done. Uninstalling is simply done by deleting the application. OSX >> does not have the wonderful install/uninstall/upgrade/solve dependencies of >> Debian (I am huge fan of Debian and it is my only OS next to OSX). >> > : > >> The debian (Ubuntu) approach seems to be: >> kicad - the programs >> kicad-common - the libraries >> kicad-doc-XX - the docs for each language >> >> I will try to follow that. >> >> /Martijn >> > > > I don't know that Richard's scripts were ever updated to reflect these > changes: > > 1) switch to launchpad.net > 2) moving of the internationalized text from the source repo into the > doc repo. > > If you are really feeling good about understanding his scripts after > studying them. I'd bet Richard would be happy to turn them over to you > and you could maybe become the debian package manager if you wanted it. > I have the feeling that some of these distro specific packages are > falling behind. I am not really looking to become _the_ Debian maintainer, sorry. I guess people could use the PPAs from Philip. I don't know how well PPAs mix with Debian, though.
> I have also been unable to kill off the subversion repo at sourceforge, > so folks still occassionally download from there and get off into the > weeds, and I think some of the distro specific packages have been bitten > by this. Sourceforge.net is looking like they intentionally do not want > us to be able to remove that code. So I have given up, because time is > money. I was bitten by this one :-) > > What I have tried is: > > 1) to submit a patch that effectively deletes the whole source tree. I > no longer have write permission, funny that. > > 2) turn off subversion using the admin privileges at sourceforge. (In > this state, you can still use a svn client to do a checkout.) > > Currently the subversion is turned back on, and I have not gone back and > tried 1) recently. > > So they are like a junk yard dog right now. Right. I thought that adding a file explaining we are at launchpad as the only file in trunk would be a good idea, but like you said, if you cannot do 1, then it becomes hard to manage. Thanks fpr your comments. /Martijn _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
