Re: Central GNUstep software index?

[Francisco Oltra]

On 20-Apr-08, at 10:00 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> Hey Francisco,
>
> This would require that all of the various maintainers agree to  
> upload their software to one given site which is simply not the way  
> it works anywhere.

True, but it doesn't have to work that way. I was thinking more of a  
Gentoo Portage kind of way, where the mantainer specifies the url of  
the original source release with its dependencies,  that can also be a  
cvs or svn source, and the user installs by running a script that does  
all the dirty clothes wash cycle   following the package description .
The ebuild system has to deal with lots of complexities and supporting  
different build systems and targets, which is something GNUstep  
already has. I envision it as simplified version of what gentoo  
portage does and it would be os (maybe arch) agnostic.



I didn't wanted to mention gentoo before not to be dismissed as a  
zealot, but as a long time linux user (only because i'm cheap)  and  
having trashed many boxes with different linux distros, i can say  
emerge slices your bread nicely, but i digress. The feature i loved  
the most was been able to 'bump' an ebuild locally to the latest  
version and not have to wait for the maintainer to update it or to get  
it accepted in the tree. who doesn't want the latest version when its  
fresh ;-)?



> I believe that what we need is something like what we already have  
> on the wiki, but more focused.   A central registry which contains  
> links to where you can download the software... something like  
> Version Tracker, I suppose.

vt... then its better to leave like it is, i suppose.


> Just my $0.02.

that would be my $0.02 in japanese currency.;-)



> Later, GJC
> Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
> # GNUstep Chief Maintainer
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Francisco Oltra <foltra@gmail.com>
> To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:58:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Central GNUstep software index?
>
>
> On 19-Apr-08, at 10:57 AM, Riccardo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > On 2008-04-18 08:41:59 +0200 "hns@computer.org" <hns@computer.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > One key problem of GNUstep is IMHO that it is quite difficult to  
> > > find
> > > application software projects. There is GAP, some other (partially
> > > abandoned) projects and some announcements apear here on this list
> > > from time to time.
> > Fully agreed.
>
> And i agree, too.  sorry, to step in, but i feel  i have to give my


> humble opinion from my perspective as a gnustep user.
> Here's another proposal, don't know if it was considered or not. Since
> one of GNUstep's goals it s to be portable across platforms, and that
> portability is obtained by recompilation and not binary distribution,
> and given that nowadays everyone loves a central software distribution
> system where you can avoid  to look for the dependencies, download,
> unpack  and build them by hand, wouldn't it be great to have the
> equivalent of the BSD port system but based on the GNUstep system
> instead of a specific OS, only requiring you have the gnustep core
> installed ? another good examples to look at are Ocaml's Godi or
> Perl's CPAN . Does that make sense?
>
> Then i know some will i answer why bother if you can leave
> distribution of binaries (or source) to the os package distribution,
> but then it's good to remember not everyone runs ubuntu linux, and
> packages getting dropped it's another issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francisco
>
>
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