Linux future split (was:Re: [linux-audio-user] Software suitable for children)

lanas lanas at securenet.net
Fri Dec 15 07:42:18 EST 2006


On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:54:01 +0100
Lars Luthman <lars.luthman at gmail.com> écrivait:

> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:28 -0500, lanas wrote:
> > That's beside the point.  If I can install Jokosher in about 120
> > seconds max (see below) that does not mean that the split does not
> > exists.  I can install Jokosher in such a short time because
> > somebody else than the developers took care of packaging it.  The
> > developers themselves did not.

> You can't expect programmers to write detailed documentation for every
> Foobar Linux out there. 

Foobar Linux ?  That's a new one.  Is it like GoboLinux ?

I would expect for one, the GoboLinux team to package the apps.  Nobody
does it like them.  They have a very interesting system but it is
surely alien to many if not most 'Common Joe' app developer.

Hey, is 'Coomon Joe' the author of 'Foobar Linux' ?

GoboLinux aside, we are left with about 5 major distros.  Debian,
Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE_HastaLaVista (or what they'll call it).

That surely does not look like an unmanageable number of distros.

Unless you use Mono, for lack of better development tools.

> The only thing that can be reasonably expected
> is generic installation instructions - "install these versions of
> these libraries then run 'make install'". Making things work
> seamlessly with Foobar Linux is the job of the packagers and
> distribution maintainers of Foobar Linux, any distribution-specific
> info from the actual programmers is just a bonus.

If tire makers would think the same, they'd put out tire sizes that no
car maker would like to install.

>> For instance, where is Jokosher for CCRMA ?

> I don't know if there is one, but if there isn't, wouldn't it be up to
> the CCRMA people to package it and not the Jokosher authors?

Or the app maker making it very easy for CCRMA users to adopt and use ?

CCRMA is not an obscure distro I think.  And Jokosher is an audio app.


Al



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