Along those lines... as people try to get Meego setup on their favorite distributions, I"m sure we'll be seeing guides on how to setup Meego on Arch, gentoo, debian, pick your favorite distribution.
If there is enough interest in Meego and enough of a user base in a particular distro, people will make it work, if not packages will be created. I don't expect Meego to support of test all distribution, but to try to privde some instructions on h ow to get the environment setup (which they have). I'm fairly sure the build process works on Ubuntu just fine. (minus the pykickstart that needs to be installed manually). -- Samir On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thiago Macieira a écrit : >> >> Em Sábado 3. Abril 2010, às 12.26.36, Jean-Christian de Rivaz escreveu: >>> >>> I found a bit easy to refuse to talk about quality because some people >>> get it as "religious". Quality is not a religion! It's facts that you can >>> quantify, policies and procedures to grant targeted goals. >>> >>>> You make at least two false points. For the first, I don't think Thiago >>>> meant low quality when me mentioned "lowest common denominator". >>>> But rather something in the lines of: >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_common_denominator >>> >>> Thanks for remind me school math. But unlike you, I think that the intent >>> was to say that some distribution are not worth to be supported by Meego. >> >> It wasn't. So stop trying to put words in my mouth. >> >> I merely said that trying to support EVERY single distribution out there >> is silly. If you try., someone is going find some distro out there, >> somewhere, that doesn't have the necessary functionality. >> >> Supporting every single distro would mean restricting to the lowest common >> denominator of all of them. >> >> So, yes, I did mean that there will be distros that won't be supported >> easily. Think of old versions or specialised distributions, like those meant >> to fit on floppy disks. However, at no point did I say anything about Debian >> being included in that category. You assumed. >> >> Now, you're saying that MeeGo QA is defective for not testing Debian. I >> beg to differ. Testing in all mainstream distros is far too much work. You >> can only expect the engineers to test on a couple, and tough luck if your >> distribution of choice isn't included in that list. I'm not going to ask >> that mine be tested, so neither should you. >> >> Or, we can look at it from another angle: your reporting of the issues is >> closing the QA loop. Now the bugs are getting fixed and Debian was tested. >> That's the power of community -- it's much larger than just the Intel and >> Nokia engineers could do on their own. >> >> Now let's get back to work. > > Thanks Thiago, > > This is a far more reasonable position than the "Our policy was/is to > support all the major distros. Nothing more, nothing less. We want people to > be able to build MeeGo images on any current and popular distro. Period. No > exceptions." I get early. > > I hope you agree that Meego should be more transparent on the list of > distributions that have been formally tested and on the list of majors > distributions know to be unsupported. > > Regards, > -- > Jean-Christian de Rivaz > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > -- -- Samir Faci *insert title* fortune | cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/tux.cow _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
