Re: Linux future split (was:Re: [linux-audio-user] Software suitable for children)

From: lanas <lanas@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 14:42:18 EET

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:54:01 +0100
Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden> 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
Received on Fri Dec 15 16:15:03 2006

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