Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages

[Peter Busser]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:

> In some cases you
> can make repositories outside the vendor's and add them to something
> like apt. If they're in sync to the right versions it might even work.

The Adamantix project tries to do its best to create quality packages.
Packages provided for Debian and other distributions by Adamantix are
supported. So if something is not working, you can report it to the
mailing list (address@hidden, subscribers only though).
Commercial support for these packages is also available.

All fixes in Adamantix packages immediately go upstream (i.e. to Felix in
most cases). The Adamantix project also contributes eggs to the Chicken
project (like the magic egg, but more are to follow).

> Getting a friendly maintainer on the "inside" (a Debian developer, for
> example) is probably a more reliable approach.

If Debian or any other distribution likes to use the Adamantix packages,
then that is fine of course. It is after all free software.

Integrating these packages in Debian means that only Debian users
benefit from this effort. My idea is to support as many distributions as
possible, not only Debian. That way this effort benefits users of Adamantix,
Ubuntu, Progeny, Knoppix, etc., etc. as well, not just users of Debian. And
it has the following advantages for Chicken users:

This effort makes it easier and more reliable to:

  - Install Chicken (there are a few distributions with Chicken packages)
  - Install Chicken eggs (only available in Adamantix AFAIK)
  - Install Chicken applications (available nowhere, except for a few in
    Adamantix). Applications require proper egg dependencies to work.
  - To distribute Chicken applications (the same infrastructure can be
    used).
  - To support multiple platforms (because the same Chicken and egg versions
    with the same features are available on all supported platforms).
  - Provide the same high quality to all platforms.

And all feedback results in improvements for ALL supported distributions
at the same time (as well as upstream).

Groetjes,
Peter.