Hi KK, On 2010-08-07 08:28, kk yap wrote: > Hi, > > While I am a huge fan of apt-get, I do have some reservation about NOX > package at this moment. Researchers want to work with source code. I > am not aware of people who want NOX binaries for installation, > probably with the exception of Guido. :P > > Nonetheless, cleaning up the build system would be much appreciated. > I would suggest working on the destiny branch where a significant > number of changes have been made. I am personally always happy to get > more help. This can be one-shot help to clean the build system too. > Whether Romain prefers.
I'll take a look at the destiny branch, and see what's left to be done. > My preference now is to get people to be able to build out source, so > that they can distribute their NOX components independently, and use > other third party components. If we can have a source package for NOX > that will install in user directory and all the dependencies, that > would be great too. What I want to do is to make the build system more standard, i.e. install files in standard locations, etc. That's necessary for Debian packaging, but it will also certainly help users that manage local installs in /usr/local/ or in their homedirs, e.g. using GNU Stow. > I am still interested to hear if anyone wants a NOX binary. This is a > good goal to have in the long term regardless of what I have said > above. If I can have it now with the above, I will take it. > > Regards > KK Thanks for your comments, Best regards, -- Romain Lenglet _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list nox-dev@noxrepo.org http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org
