On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:54:01 +0100 Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:28 -0500, lanas wrote: > > That's beside the point. If I can install Jokosher in about 120 > > seconds max (see below) that does not mean that the split does not > > exists. I can install Jokosher in such a short time because > > somebody else than the developers took care of packaging it. The > > developers themselves did not. > You can't expect programmers to write detailed documentation for every > Foobar Linux out there. Foobar Linux ? That's a new one. Is it like GoboLinux ? I would expect for one, the GoboLinux team to package the apps. Nobody does it like them. They have a very interesting system but it is surely alien to many if not most 'Common Joe' app developer. Hey, is 'Coomon Joe' the author of 'Foobar Linux' ? GoboLinux aside, we are left with about 5 major distros. Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE_HastaLaVista (or what they'll call it). That surely does not look like an unmanageable number of distros. Unless you use Mono, for lack of better development tools. > The only thing that can be reasonably expected > is generic installation instructions - "install these versions of > these libraries then run 'make install'". Making things work > seamlessly with Foobar Linux is the job of the packagers and > distribution maintainers of Foobar Linux, any distribution-specific > info from the actual programmers is just a bonus. If tire makers would think the same, they'd put out tire sizes that no car maker would like to install. >> For instance, where is Jokosher for CCRMA ? > I don't know if there is one, but if there isn't, wouldn't it be up to > the CCRMA people to package it and not the Jokosher authors? Or the app maker making it very easy for CCRMA users to adopt and use ? CCRMA is not an obscure distro I think. And Jokosher is an audio app. Al
