Chris Cannam wrote:
On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Cannam wrote:
We've never found the resources to provide _release_ binaries --
how are we ever going to provide snapshot ones? Admittedly the
effort is probably only about the same, but even so.
Automation! Set up a process.
That's fine if you have a single package (e.g. if Autopackage happens to
work well), or at least a small number of packages, that you can build
each time. It's not so good if you have a significant population of
different distributions that really should be at least minimally
user-tested.
Yes, the BEIF builds a few different packages.
Inkscape has been using Autopackage <http://autopackage.org/>
[...] And I think the packages are pretty solid right now.
The result was broadly good. It installed a version of Inkscape that
seems to work. (Judging from the ldd output, Inkscape is in C, right?
Or at least it uses no C++ libraries.)
Inkscape is C++ and uses C++ libraries, but at this time the C++ libs
are staticly linked to avoid ABI incompatibilities. I realize this
wouldn't work for Rosegarden. But I believe that the next version of
Autopackage will have some magic for dealing with the ABI problem. I am
unaware of the technical details.
It was
wrong in just so many ways that I really didn't fancy trying to follow
up any fixes, which is why I didn't report it.)
I'm going to guess that this is why the issue remains unfixed. ;)
I'm not here, nor have I ever been anywhere, for the purpose of
defending Autopackage against anyone's religious package management
preferences. I don't have the energy. I would like to be plugged in more
closely to the RG development process and see some bugs getting fixed.
In the interest of strengthening your tester community, I suggest
occasional snapshot builds. In order to make that easy on yourselves, I
recommend using Autopackage and working with the Autopackage developers.
I'm not advocating that you exclude other package formats.
Autopackage works for me and I think its use reflects the most
economical stewardship of my time.
Aaron Spike
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