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n00b prog
badkarma:
quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
It would be MUCH easier and beneficial if you just created an RPM and an SRPM out of the packages in question, assuming that the RPM doesn't already exist. That would be far easier for n00bs.
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Yeah Void, but it would be nice to be able to easily pick specific options for n00bs and compile a program from source, tailor made for their wishes and system.
choasforages:
well, why don't you both write a different version, and whichever version is better.....
wouldn't it be better to seperate the ass end from the front end. like maybe have different interfaces like written in gtk+1.2 gtk+2.0 qt-2 qt-3, ncurses, and such and just have a lib to handle grabbing the options/*then agian that would be more complex, but better in the end for everyone*/
anohter thing, the prog would have to chop out common autoconf options and leave that for "expert" mode
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by BadKarma:
Yeah Void, but it would be nice to be able to easily pick specific options for n00bs and compile a program from source, tailor made for their wishes and system.
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I guess it would be a good learning project if nothing else. Heck, I'm happy if the source package is even incorporates configure. Is it too early to ask if you can also make your program spit out an RPM and SRPM, along with the Debian package?
choasforages:
well, i think the quirk is working on getting it to be demoable like to show people that we have something that works now i was thinking about regerstering it on sourceforge, there are obvios benifits to doing it that way right??? or is it just a pain in the ass. as for debian and rpm's, that might be an option, however since it is most likely going to be open source, you could always add that feature. besides, i can't really code good enough to do anything usefull, i just think of good ideas that could benifit the linux/open source comunity. and making it easy for n00bs to compile from source, and using terminoligy like installing a program normally, i think that would be a great plus. hell, the guys behind rpm probably didn't think that they were inventing a standerd, or maybe they did. as for licensing, i guess if the quirk is writing the basics like he said he was, it would probably be up to him to decide the licence. i was leaning more toward the lgpl myself. so people could use it like a library or something like that
voidmain:
I would put it under GPL and not LGPL if I were you. That would require any program that used it to also be GPL. And by all means, if your program looks like it will be useful put it on sourceforge.
[ August 01, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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