Re: GSoC 2008: Project Proposal - Common Application Installer

[Dave Hall]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:43 +0530, Ibraheem P wrote:
> Hello James,
> 
> There is an existing software called 'Alien' that does this facility ,
> but there are some limitations for this. It just converts one format
> to another, see this http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/

You might also want to add PackageKit to your list - included in Fedora
9 beta.  For more info see http://www.packagekit.org

> Also advice me that to which organization should I propose this
> project.
> 

Sorry I can't help you with that.  Maybe one of the distros
participating in GSoC might be interested.

Cheers

Dave

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:33 PM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Ibraheem P
>         <address@hidden> wrote:
>         > Dear Sir,
>         
>         Hello!   I am James.
>         
>         >    I'm Ibraheem from India, a Computer Science and
>         Engineering student.I
>         > would like to participate in GSoC 2008. I've an idea about
>         developing a
>         > software called 'Common Application Installer' for Linux
>         which facilitate
>         
>         
>         Applications are installed on operating systems, but Linux is
>         just a
>         kernel.  See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for a
>         longer
>         discussion of this issue.
>         
>         
>         > installation of packages in various formats in almost all
>         Linux
>         > distributions. It includes the installation of Linux
>         Standard Base (LSB),
>         > RPM, DEB, Solaris (PKG) , Stampede (SLP), Slackware ( TGZ )
>         etc and also
>         > facilitate installation from source packages (./configure,
>         make, make
>         > install).
>         
>         
>         Are you aware of any existing software that does this already?
>         
>         
>         > It can develop with a GUI to make easy installation of
>         packages
>         > for the user. I am proficient in C, C++,Java, Qt Designer,
>         Gtk+ etc.
>         
>         
>         James.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Ibraheem
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