> > Well apparently subsurface is now targeted towards Win/Mac[0] (no > > binaries for Linux)... so the "experience" for FLOSS users will simply > > be that there is no subsurface anymore. > > No, we have binaries available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mint, and, of > course, Debian. And we have a fully automated build script in the works > that builds Subsurface on many other distributions that we haven't been > able to add to our list. There's an ArchLinux AUR based on that. Etc.
You are also building the Fedora and OpenSuse packages on the same system while if they are both RPM based they do use different macros and have different guidelines. I looked quickly over the spec file and I call already tell that the spec file used would not be valid on Fedora, even more fun the source rpm doesn't even build on Fedora. So no, I would not install your binary on my machine but then again, I am maybe just too experienced in this domain, maybe most of our users don't care of these things. This whole situation is kinda sad to me. I love subsurface and what it allowed me to do. I maintain subsurface and libdivecomputer in Fedora but I guess I won't be able to soon. I could have integrated your patches in libdivecomputer (already compiled as a static library, for subsurface), we could have worked with the libmarble folks to integrate the desired changes, we could have specified an exact version of libgit2 required, but no, I've been asked to just forget the time I invested in this and instead use a binary provided that doesn't even build on my OS. Sad :( Pierre _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
