On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 23:40 +0200, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > Hi, > > I've wanted to put this to discussion for quite some time, but never got > around to writing this mail. Here it comes: > > By now a nice number of people is producing binary packages of the rkward > releases for various distributions and architectures. That is a wonderful > thing, and I really appreciate this work. At the same time I don't quite know > what to do with those packages. Several of you have offered to put them up on > the web somewhere, or suggested for me to put them in the download list, or > in general asked me, where to announce these packages. I'm afraid, I've > probably left a good number of such mails unanswered - simply because I > didn't really know myself.
I think the easier is to support the package accepted in each distro and to put forward which distro already integrates rkward. > So how to handle this? > 1) Upload all contributed packages to the sourceforge download page. In case > this is your favorite, there's a catch, though: I'd like to delegate most of > the work to another person. Making file-releases is a cumbersome process, > already, and I don't want it to take up yet more of my time. Volunteers? > > 1b) Upload to a regular directory on an HTTP-server (like > http://rkward.sf.net/temp/). Possibly slightly easier to handle, but still > I'd like to delegate that task. > > 2) Have most packages hosted somewhere else, and simply keep a list of links > to those packages. Somewhat similar to > http://rkward.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts > (or > http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts > > in the new wiki). However, we'd probably re-organize this page a bit, and try > to make it more prominent (by advertising it as the primary download page). > > 3) Something else? I would go for the solution 2 as well, putting forward not the binary itself but rather the way to install it for this distro (maybe still keeping a link to download the package from the official repository) = Binaries and Build Scripts = There is the list of distributions that support and package rkward. == Debian == To install apt-get install rkward or http://debian.org/packages/.... (fake url) == gentoo == emerge -av rkward == Fedora == yum install rkward or http://fedoraproject.org/packages/... and so on :) Best regards, Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel