Re: GNUSTEP/linux

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:49:20 -0500
Tim Harrison <tim@linuxstep.org> wrote:
> On Friday, Feb 7, 2003, at 15:53 Canada/Eastern, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > I agree that if there is a more elegant way to do it we should go
> > for that but in this specific case I don't see a big problem. It may
> > be a problem for non rpm based distributions or different operating
> > systems however.
> Okay, granted the topic refers specifically to Linux, but you've
> opened the field here. :)

Thank you. I was beginning to get worried ... ;-)

> GNUstep runs on many other systems, so why limit this to RPM?  Most 
> large projects release RPM, tar.gz, and maybe .DEB.  Why not provide 
> packages for the major types of systems, and then <shameless plug> use
> LSPM </shameless plug> to manage the GNUstep aspect of packages.

You need at least one 'generic' "distribution" (tgz) otherwise it will
be hard getting GNUstep installed in the first place ;-)

-- 
Chris