Le 11 décembre 2010, Bret Busby a écrit :
It is apparently included in a testing or unstable version of Debian Linux,
yet to be released as "stable".
Can't you install some packages from the testing repository?
It is a question of for whom software is written - whether it is written for
It is above all a question of workforce. I understand there are few people
in the SM team. There may be no-one using Debian among them.
the users (in which case, amongst other things, it is provided in the
different packages, for the different distributions), or, whether it is
written for the developers of the software (in which case, the design
(including the interface) is designed to suit the developers, and the
software might be released only as binaries, to make it difficult for users
to install, restricting who may use the software).
I'm not sure what you call "binaries"... Packages precisely ship binaries.
So does the tarball offered by seamonkey-project.org.
So, the question is, are developers of an operating system, expected to adapt
software packages that may run on their syetem, to be easily installed on
their system, or, are the software developers expected to develop their
software to be able to be installed with a minimum of fuss (and, thus, as
packages that can be easily installed using the operating system package
management), on the operating systems on which the software is said to be
able to run?
Neither and both... SM like many other apps is built in a standard way
that allows ditribution maintainers to easily package it. OpenSUSE for
example does that (packaging it).
Or you could install by hand from the archive. It's not so hard, but you
may lack dependencies if you really are on Debian etch:
(http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.0/system-requirements)
The following distributions should provide everything needed:
* Debian "Lenny" (5.0.x) (or later)
I am using Debian "lenny", which is the current Debian "stable" version.
"etch" is now "oldstable" and obsolete.
So did you even try to install the package offered on
seamonkey-project.org? I just cited their page telling Lenny fulfills the
requirements!
Installing the binary, or whatever the tar/zip or whatever files is, is, from
my experience, messy and difficult, and I had done that in the past, with a
netscape or mozilla browser suite, and ended up having to instal, seven
dfirectories down.
You seem to mix "binaries" and "sources". The tarball on
seamonkey-project.org has ready-to-use software. No compiling required.
It has been my experience, that, for the most part, Debian has been a more
stable system than some others, and, that package installation and
maintenance, when using the Debian package management, has been superior.
Debian stability is at the cost of old software versions. I'd recommend,
as Robert did, openSUSE, which is actively maintained, and has a reactive
community (very helpful forums), recent software, and an easy-to-use and
well documented administration tool.
--
LL
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