On Oct 14 2003, at 12:07, Bart Garst was caught saying:
> > The fact that somegroup of developers don't provide nice pre-built
> > package for "common" distributions is completely irrelevant in regards
> > to the quality. Some large projects such as Gmome, KDE, etc have
> > pre-built RPMs b/c a) they have a developer base of hundreds of people
> > and more importanlty b) they are funded. Not all open source projects
> > are well funded and being an open source developer I can tell you
> > that I am far more interested in writting code then making nice
> > packages to make other people's life easier. That's the reason that
>
> Isn't the point of writing code to make someone's life easier? (couldn't
> resist :-)
No comment. :)
> I am curious though, how do you guys(?) handle packaging? Have you had
> any luck finding (good) volunteer packagers?
I work for a linux distro, so we have a couple of people do that for
our product. But for the stuff I release to the community, a couple
of people have picked up my kernels and built pre-built ramdisks and
provided documentation for folks wanting run Linux w/o having to
buy our distro.
~Deepak
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"To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things - products,
packaging, and systems - from the very beggining on the understanding
that waste does not exist" - William McDonough & Michael Braungart,
From Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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