On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 17:26, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > You must use EXACTLY the set of pre-requisites that are available in a > > Debian distribution. For instance....because I use Plone 2.0 I cannot > > participate because Plone 2.0 is not part of a Debian > > distribution..... > You can but Andreas won't help you with it.
I *can* do anything. But since Andreas is the maintainer of the Debian-Med project...it kind of matters what he decides......in this case he decided that even though there would be no conflict between the various Zope Products I use and any others on the Debian-Med platform he would not package TORCH as a part of Debian Med because it doesn't adhere to the ethos of Debian Med that there shall only be one package of anything in a distribution. In fact you can have many copies and various versions of Zope/Plone running without interaction or interference. He also will not abide by the decisions of the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) in deciding where to place files on the distribution. According to Debian Med (and Andreas) there is not such thing as the /opt directory and therefore the LANANA (http://www.lanana.org/) decisions are not valid for Debian Med. This makes it kind of difficult to build a package. > It can be good or bad to use older versions. True. But I get to make the decision which I use in TORCH......he gets to make the decision how to run the Debian Med distribution. From my perspective he is hurting the chances of building the distribution he wants to build. > > Maybe this is why no one else has distributed a Debian-Med package > > application either? > Packages *have* been contributed/distributed. Really? Is there a Debian Med distribution for download that contains these packages? I'm sorry, I looked as late as this afternoon and found no such distribution nor even any "firm list" of packages planned for distribution that have met Andreas requirements. Can you provide a link? I have always thought this would be a wonderful project. Certainly a Knoppix distribution with the many applications listed at: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ would be a great tool to distribute at various trade shows etc. Cheers, Tim
