Re: Best Linux distro for GNUstep?

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi

Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 15:32 +1100, Christopher Armstrong a écrit :
> Hi Phillippe
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:55 +0100, "Philippe Roussel"
> <p.o.roussel@free.fr> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 09:22 +1100, Christopher Armstrong a écrit :
> > > ....
> > > 
> > > I think it might be possible for us to use one of these, at least for
> > > Ubuntu users, as we could maintain more up-to-date packages for users
> > > interested in trying up-to-date versions of GNUstep. The only problem I
> > > see is that the maintainer of the PPA needs to sign the Ubuntu Code of
> > > Conduct.
> > 
> > I already did that for whatever reason so if somebody is willing to
> > creating the source packages, I could create a PPA.
> > 
> > At what rate those packages would be updated ? 
> 
> I think they should be updated every time we make a new release of
> GNUstep. Any less frequently defeats the purpose, and we don't have the
> resources to stabilise out-of-cycle releases of the trunk repository any
> more frequently than the release cycle we have. 
>
> We could also possibly provide automatic "snapshot" releases of the
> trunk repository on a daily basis for people who quickly need an
> unstable version to check a bug fix. I don't think we should support
> this option, unless it really helps those people who quickly want to get
> an unstable version running on their system.

Agreed.

So the main task for producing those packages would be to create a .deb
description for each one, right ? Debian and Ubuntu already did that (or
maybe only Debian did, I don't know), we should be able to use that,
right ?

Philippe