I think debs make sense for alot of linux users. There are alot of people out there who use Ubuntu/Debian who'd get super-simple installs for Shoes and Fedora/CentOS/RPM users who could get the same thing via whatever Deb converters are out there.
Based on my experience making MacPorts portfile for Shoes I'd imagine that it'd be pretty easy to make an ebuild for Gentoo. -CJ On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Roy Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 26, 2009, at 9:58 AM, _why wrote: > >> >> I am switching to a .deb for Shoes 3. > > Pray tell why? This will cause issues with non-binary distributions. After > 5 years on gentoo I've yet to see any deb installer for gentoo. The current > wisdom is that you have to manually pick the deb archive apart and see if > you can make use of any source material as any binary material is very > unlikely to be compatible. > > BTW, all of the shoe .run files that I've tried have worked perfectly. > > TIA, > Roy > >
