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Re: [EFFING PACKAGE MANAGEMENT] Provide cross-distribution of packages of U++ [message #47184 is a reply to message #47178]

Sun, 25 December 2016 20:38

dolik.rce
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MrSarup wrote on Sun, 25 December 2016 14:44

Especially from your experience, I would want to hear from you, or people like you, that FPM is one of the best projects seen in this area.

Or did you just reject and kept on making arguments to support Mirek's position? Did you understand the concept of FPM at all?

FPM does once exactly what you do many times on many platform.

So if you are maintaining many distros, why do you not yourself use it first and let us know your experience? Why prepare many binaries for many platforms, when one is sufficient?

Seems I was reading your post bit too fast and reacting to something slightly different then what you wrote. I haven't checked the links you posted and mixed up FPM with Flatpak Embarassed

. Sorry for the confusion this might have caused.

Anyway, my point still holds, the packaging can and should be separated from the development. FPM (and actually even Flatpak Smile

) is just another platform. You are right that it comes for lower price, since the effort is not repeated for multiple distributions. I haven't actually heard about FPM before, but I will definitely check it - it might be worth a try.

It is also worth noting that the packaging itself is not the only thing to consider. The packaging infrastructure is also important, e.g. for Ubuntu, the packages can be built and hosted for free on launchpad, for OpenSUSE (and many others) there is OBS. This can be a great simplification, especially for small projects. Of course, if this approach would integrate with FPM, it would be even better. Can tell if that is possible right now, since I haven't read enough about FPM yet.

tl;dr version: I'll try to check out the FPM and perhaps try to implement U++ packages with it. I think your suggestion is definitely valid and worth investigation. But I also believe that it is not Mireks work or responsibility.

Honza

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