[LAD] Some new things to play with

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:47:43PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:

> Well, as outlined below I am suggesting git/svn not as means for
> concurrent/team development but for providing a canonical
> version-independent URL that can be tracked for each of the projects.

Updates are quite infrequent, and if there's anything really 
important or new they will be announced on LAD/LAU. It's not
like some projects which you could update almost daily.
 
> That's 3 steps to much :)

Are Linux users becoming that lazy ? :-)

> With git it's also easy to keep more than one repo: fi. a private with
> all the small changes and a public where you only push out releases.

I don't think that my provider (hosteurope) provides a git server.
 
> As for the 'sudo make install' - I'm quite reluctant to run that
> command.

I can't help to spot some contradition there. You would not trust
'sudo make install', even if you can verify very easily what it's
going to do (just a few lines in the Makefile). But you would trust
a single-command, almost automatic update ? This can do whatever it
wants with your system, even if going through a managed package,
and it's less easy to verify.

> Usually a 'make' suffices for testing.

For zita-rev1 for example it wouldn't - the application expects
some data in $PREFIX/share/zita-rev1/.

> The commonly used target (autotools) is "make uninstall"
> (not "make remove")

But I don't use autotools :-). It's easy to provide both.

> I agree programmers should not be concerned about packaging. I was just
> suggesting a few trivial changes that'll make live easier for PPL
> packaging (either for distros or for their own benefit).

If I can make life easier for packagers I will, that's why DESTDIR
was added for example. But I can't do anything specific for any
distro (or desktop).

Ciao, 

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