On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:02:07PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >>And how many full-time people do you have to provide these 15 > >>versions for linux? > > > >Took me about two weeks full-time to set up all the virtual machines > >(i.e. install OS, install required development packages, work around > >installation quirks etc.) Now a full recompile of our stuff is a bit > >more than an hour per platform, and about double that time when I > >rebuild Qt as well (which is not really needed dayly as I don't build > >Qt snapshot, only real releases). Starting such a build is typing > >'make nightly' on a certain console, i.e. including login less than > >20 seconds of my own time. > > And could you do that for LyX? That would be very nice...
In theory? Yes. In practise it would probably require even less than two weeks full time as LyX has less compile time dependencies than that project at work. However, I doubt that'd be significantly more than I spent on LyX work during the whole 1.5 cycle... [Things may improve a bit when we get DSL. It's on the way already...] However, I do not really think we need that. Distros are fairly good at pulling what they need... Andre'
