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From: | Harri Haataja |
Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages |
Date: | Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:26:21 +0200 |
On 12/01/07, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote: > 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:
But sadly many of those may have a completely different (and possibly ancient) version in themselves that the installer and possibly the packager has to work around or clash with. I agree (still) that the effort in adamantix is excellent. It would be great if that could be the upstream or a complete sync into all the mentioned distros' package collections.
This effort makes it easier and more reliable to:
- To distribute Chicken applications (the same infrastructure can be used).
! This has really been my point from the start. Being able to make something depend on chicken and suitable eggs in much the same way as you can do on so many other language runtimes. You can do ad hoc bundling (tarballs, binary packages without a clean build), but can not really fit them into strongly managed systems. -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting.
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