Am 22.02.2013 um 10:28 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>:
> > On 22 Feb 2013, at 10:16, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Philippe, >> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I don't have a clue about Debian packaging but as there is already >>> squeak, we may be able to reuse a bit. >> >> >> it would be great if you could have a look at that. > > Yes, that would indeed be super, but it is slightly more complicated than > that. > > In order to get your package into the official repositories, you need to > follow a lot of rules and processes, and it is quite slow and conservative > (months if not years), all to increase quality and stability. I am not sure > it matches well with Pharo's development velocity. > > The One-Click, the scripts that Camillo did or just a plain VM download with > basic documentation (like a read me ;-) are not that bad. We should make an > effort to improve what we have. > I don't see much of a reason to go for the official distribution. Debian is very special in that case and the last attempts to do it have shown that the two systems (debian and pharo) are no good match process wise. To the rescue there is launchpad [1] and PPAs (personal package archives). You can open a project in launchpad and make a PPA for your own package. The final installation instructions are somthing like sudo add-apt-repository ppa:LAUNCHPAD-USER/PPA-NAME and then sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install PACKAGENAME I assume that the ease of installing is the main target and that you can get with PPA. my two cents, Norbert [1] https://launchpad.net/
