On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima <[email protected] > wrote:
> 2011/3/29 Webmaster for Lungstrom.com <[email protected]> > > > > > Here is the state of the North American Community DVD project, as I see > it. > > > > If you go to the root index page for "libreoffice-na.us" you will have > two > > choices: > > > > All Supported Platforms > > and > > Windows Only > > > > The All Supported Platforms version of the English DVD is in the > /English/ > > folder. The Windows-only DVD is in the /English-Windows/ folder. > > > > The original idea for the English only DVD was to place the DVD into the > > computer and the default folder of the DVD would have the index file > along > > with all the other usable HTML files in that default folder. When there > is > > finally a Spanish or French versions, then you will get a default folder > > that had only one HTML file, the index file, and the common folders with > a > > folder for each language that is supported by that DVD. > > > > > > > <cut> > > > > > > So please let me/us know what you think about the work being done. > > > > webmaster @ lungstrom.com > > webmaster @ krackedpress.com > > > > Tim Lungstrom > > New York State, USA > > > > Amazing. We had the same idea about the html file in the root folder. > > By the way, Brazilian community is almost done with ours. We are at 50% of > Getting Started translations and going. > > We are also including a bash script to automatic install for linux users. > That script detects the hw platform (32/64bits), the distro (Ubuntu, > Debian, > Fedora, Mandriva or Suse) and installs all required packages for that > specific distro. I have tested in Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva. Just Suse > and > Debian are still missing and I expect to test it tomorrow. > > You can see these videos about how easy Linux installations have become: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/755426/instala_fedora.ogv > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/755426/instala_mandriva.ogv > > There's just one issue: once I'm not a developer, the script really works, > but it also has a very ugly code. =D > Well, any script that tries to be cross-distro like that is going to be ugly - such is the way of the world > > Maybe someone could read it and improve the code. > I expect that it could be reworked to instantiate an API, so that distro-specific scripts could be created. Absent other volunteers, I'm happy to help. It may be that bash is not a good choice for such a scripting task (that's probably part of why it's ugly). Have you considered Python? To be specific, though, what is the additional stuff that exists outside of /opt? Also, I have to ask what is the additional stuff that those distros aren't adding that you feel should be included? Cheers, jec -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/projects/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
