Re: Rough development plan

Having followed this thread and others and read the phorum on contribs.org,
I think there is definitely a good chance of success for this project.



I do believe a move in the base distro is required but not an immediate
need. I would suggest though that a reliable update app is very important.
Ideally if this project is going to thrive we need to get as many of the
base users to upgrade to the "new" version so that less efforts are wasted
supporting the older versions as this would reduce the time to be spent on
the new, with a smaller, more time restrained project I think careful
considerations should be paid to this. People have mentioned, apt, yum,
blades etc. I think a serious discussion of these tools needs to be had to
enable all various contrib developers to update their contribs to work with
whichever is chosen allowing all users to upgrade without fear of "this
worked for me with 5.1.2 , where do I find a new version".



If we are to start afresh that should apply across the board, it will also
encourage the various contrib devs to participate in deciding how to achieve
this. Perhaps some of the "dead" weight in terms of unusable rpms, and
howtos (if there are any) could be dropped reducing the likelihood of a
newbie installing the wrong thing.



Also using something like yum or apt would allow us to develop something
similar to this http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php


Where a clear description of the package can be seen and the program and its
dependencies satisfied by the installation tool.



Obviously the more platform independent  (or at least similar) the tool we
chose the easier to manage a change in base distro (apt gets my vote).



m2c

Dean


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent DINCLAUX" <[email protected]>
To: "Peter Lambert" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Rough development plan


> Peter Lambert a écrit :
> > Seems to me Darrell has it right.  First thing must be a clean handover
and
> > base.
>
> True! we are loosing time talking about moving to an other distro. I
> don't think it is time for that! Better talk about building a central
> repository of all written rpm...
>
> E-smith 6.0 has about all needed functionalities and also stability.
> Isn't it what we need?
>
> > As for updates, a "blades" style panel is great and could use either apt
or
> > rpm - as a user I wouldn't care which so I'd not even tell the average
user
> > what we use.
>
> TRUE :)
>
>
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