Hi, On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:35:38 -0800, Rick Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea is that you can easily replace the "ubuntu-application" part > with whatever you want. For example, you could fork the > ubuntu-application template to make fedora-application. You could change > the preferences to use something other than desktopcouch for > persistence, and change the package command to create an rpm instead of > deb.
A few others and I are working on a tool which we hope will abstract the packaging part of this. I don't think that the package format should be necessarily tied to the technologies that will be used to produce the application. https://launchpad.net/pkgme The tool is inspired by quickly, stdeb, python-mkdebian and debhelper, and aims to generate the packaging by looking at the code. Once it is up to scratch I would like to propose it to implement the "package" command of quickly, which could then be shared across templates. It would be easy for someone to extend pkgme to generate an rpm spec file, or any other packaging format. I think this would be particularly attractive to GNOME, as it would mean that you didn't have to favour a particular distribution for packaging of the code. I haven't talked much about the project yet as I am putting together some documentation for people who want to write "backends" for it. Once we have a few of those then we can encourage application authors to make use of the tool. Thanks, James -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
