Hi,
I can testify that it's a real PAIN to make a solid installer FRAMEWORK,
but once a very solid template/framework is in place things go very
smooth and very fast.
Found this out when doing Application Packaging with IBM GSA (~60,000
user site). The initial application "package" goes out int
It's been rumoured that Garrett Robert Banuk said:
>
> Yes, I've thought about doing this. Maybe on my free time over this
> summer. I was going to do this for my college project but it just
> seems to small.
I think you wildly underestimate how hard it is to do a good installer.
I think you
I agree. I think Linux should move out of the "geeks
only" category and become an OS everyone can use.
Gnucash is a very important end user program and if
the end-user can't install it he won't use it.
--- Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It may be unrealistic, but I would like an in
Dylan Paul Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In particular, it seems like Helix Code has raised a lot of capital to
> address exactly this problem for programs very much like gnucash.
Actually, no. Helix Code will be selling the "gnome CD" which
simplifies a LOT of these problems. They can
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:21:12PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
...stuff about library problem...
> I don't see there being _massive_ value to designing anything to this
> end.
In particular, it seems like Helix Code has raised a lot of capital to
address exactly this problem for programs ver
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> And what if the user doing the install isn't root and can't even write
> in /usr/local? ... There needs to be some way to re-root the
> install at install time so that you can put gnucash under an arbitrary
> directory without re-configuring and re-build
Yes, I've thought about doing this. Maybe on my free time over this
summer. I was going to do this for my college project but it just
seems to small. It would really help to get people to migrate over to
linux. Well this is getting off topic for this list...
On 25 May 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
Garrett Banuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe have 2 or 3 versions of gnucash. Source, binary and statically
> linked everything binary for a the linux newbies who wouldn't know how to
> install everything else.
It may be unrealistic, but I would like an install experience that's
as novice-
Maybe have 2 or 3 versions of gnucash. Source, binary and statically
linked everything binary for a the linux newbies who wouldn't know how to
install everything else.
At 06:48 PM 5/25/00 +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
>I think your problem is a fundamental one. It's the same problem **al
I think your problem is a fundamental one. It's the same problem **all**
the commercial vendors have, whether they use gnome or not. See
f.ex. StarOffice which was (still is?) statically linked even against the
most basic labraries.
It's what the LSB is about and here for (www.linuxbase.org).
*t
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems to me to make sense to use the appropriate dependancy management
> system for differing Linux and BSD systems. If we build our own, all
> we accomplish is to force an extra packaging system that will conflict
> with the "native" one (e.g.
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> This covers the _vast_ majority of the systems at issue. It is,
> admittedly, not helpful for the users of Irix, SCO, Solaris, AIX, or
> HP-UX; hopefully they can provide some assistance in at least putting
> together some form of "dependancy list
On Wed, 24 May 2000 21:22:56 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > >Hmm, how about some kind of install program? I was thinking of doing
> > > this as a generic thing on my spare time, but something that checks if
> > > certain libraries are install
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