Re: Introduction: Interested in becoming a packager for fis-gtm and vista

2012-07-17 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2012-07-16 22:50, Clive Hills wrote: Coincidentally I was looking at gtm this weekend. One of the interesting points in re packaging it is that one must bootstrap gtm from an existing gtm using the providing source. I'm wondering a bit how that might be affected by the Fedora packaging

Re: Introduction: Interested in becoming a packager for fis-gtm and vista

2012-07-17 Thread Luis Ibanez
Clive, It is great to hear that you are already interested in gtm. The good news is that during the Debian packaging we solved the bootstrapping problem. We worked along with upstream and with Debian developers to find a suitable solution. The reason why gtm is needed in order to build gtm, is

Introduction: Interested in becoming a packager for fis-gtm and vista

2012-07-16 Thread Luis Ibanez
Dear Fedora Devel, I'm interested in becoming a packager for: * fis-gtm: an open source implementation of the M/MUMPS language/database * vista: The EHR of the Department of Veterans Affairs I have been working recently with the upstream teams of these two projects while packaging them for

Re: Introduction: Interested in becoming a packager for fis-gtm and vista

2012-07-16 Thread Clive Hills
Coincidentally I was looking at gtm this weekend. One of the interesting points in re packaging it is that one must bootstrap gtm from an existing gtm using the providing source. I'm wondering a bit how that might be affected by the Fedora packaging guidelines? I also use Intersystems cache (non