Re: Packaging problems

2022-06-02 Thread Willow Liquorice
Right. Perhaps the onus is on the developers (i.e. us) to make things a bit easier, then? To be honest, I barely understand how the GNUnet project is put together on a source code level, let alone how packaging is done. One of the things I'm going to do with the Sphinx docs is provide a high-l

Re: Packaging problems

2022-06-02 Thread Maxime Devos
Willow Liquorice schreef op do 02-06-2022 om 14:44 [+0100]: > While I was working on the documentation, I decided to put a Repology > badge at the top level of the install page, and then I saw the extent of > GNUnet's packaging woes. There are more distros with severely outdated > versions than

Packaging problems

2022-06-02 Thread Nikita Ronja Gillmann
More or less, from my work back then and observations still today: complexity is to blame (and complex scenarios). Only people involved in gnunet at some point or close to the project managed to create correct packages. With my pkgsrc hat on: almost nobody gets paid to do packaging work. Updates

Packaging problems

2022-06-02 Thread Willow Liquorice
While I was working on the documentation, I decided to put a Repology badge at the top level of the install page, and then I saw the extent of GNUnet's packaging woes. There are more distros with severely outdated versions than ones that are up to date, even the rolling release ones that have c