I'm not a packager, but thought I'd offer *my* 2 cents to those who would hear...
I say package it together for Windows. It's more in the Windows culture to make things as less confusing as possible. Give 'em one thing they need to download. To install just the TuxPaint-Config, the installer can provide an option to install just the desired components from some "Custom Install" menu. As for Linux, the dependability can be one-way. So if you ask for TuxPaint, you can depend it on TuxPaint-Config, but if you select TuxPaint-Config then it doesn't have to depend on TuxPaint. So those who install TuxPaint end up installing TuxPaint-Config but those who install TuxPaint-Config doesn't have to install TuxPaint. To be technical, though, it really should be a "recommended," not a requirement... but whichever makes more sense for the end-user (or the parents of the end-users =) is who we should concentrate on, not what's technically correct. I can't speak for the end-users or their parents, though, since I'm not a parent and I'm not really the primary target end-user. -Mark On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:29:02AM +0200, Fabian Franz wrote: > > Please also on Linux :-). > > > > Or at least make it a "depend" ... > > I was about to agree wholeheartedly, but then I thought what if someone > wanted tuxpaint-config as a tool to generate config files which were then > distributed (say, rsync) to other machines (Linux or maybe different?) > > So I think a "recommends..." would be the must flexible. > (Why install all of Tux Paint on your server if you're never going to > run it?) > > > But then, I'm not a packager. What to the packagers think? > > -bill! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the age where you can find your mate > http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ online, it's only logical that you can get > New Breed Software get rid of them there, as well." -Ed Helms > _______________________________________________ > Tuxpaint-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev > -- Mark K. Kim AIM: markus kimius Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
