On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:18 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Hmm, at least for plague 0.4 the README file should be just about right. > > Some bits have changed for 0.5, but 0.5 isn't in Fedora Extras at all. > > Dan, what'd be nice to have a few words about in the beginning of the > README would be some words about the overall concept and intended use of > Plague, whether it is general to any extent or very Fedora/Red > Hat-specific. Good point. > Also some words sbout its history, why it was written and so on. I've been > under the impression that you created Plague some while ago as a > replacement for Red Hats build system which was proprietary, but I don't > even know if I remember that part correctly... There was some confusion about that; but it was actually created as a build system for Fedora Extras specifically, because beehive (the old RH buildsys) was on life-support and had major issues, brew wasn't ready yet, and brew wasn't necessarily appropriate for Extras at the time anyway. Dan > Linus > -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
