Re: Help with Linux?

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upon reflection, maybe it's irrelevant to worry about official Linux
> packages and updates. If Aaron and others could build packages for
> Visual for the most popular distributions (rpm etc.), they could be
> hosted on the download page at vpython.org. As long as the packages do
> their job of automatically resolving the many dependencies, it's not
> all that important whether Ubuntu and other distributions include
> "our" packages in their official list of packages or not.

This is essentially the approach we took with Thousand Parsec [1]
packaging: provide up-to-date in-house packages and
repositories/overlays for the most popular distributions' package
managers, and (secondarily) attempt to get them included/updated in
official repositories. The main thing needed for the latter is for
someone to "adopt" the package within each distro -- shouldn't be a
problem for Visual, as it's fairly well established in this sense --
and then for an upstream (VPython) developer to poke the various
maintainers whenever there's a new release. As long as upstream
developers do the actual packaging work, the distro developers should
normally only need to QA and update, with minimal back-and-forth.
Incidentally, this line of communication can help upstream build
better packages for each distro as well.


[1] http://thousandparsec.net/tp

(Sorry for the double message, Bruce!)

-- 
Aaron Mavrinac
www.mavrinac.com

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