15 Dec
2006
15 Dec
'06
8:42 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:54:01 +0100
Lars Luthman <lars.luthman(a)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