Gnucash RPM management ?

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 14:15:28 +0200
Laurent Jacques said:

>OK. I will use it. 
>But all people are not familiar with apt. 

Not all people are familiar with rpm either, and anyone new to Linux 
certainly won't be familiar with any of the package managers 
currently available. 

Of course, requiring people to use a different package manager, is 
also not the best approach, though IMO, the developers of *any* sw 
package should not be required, or even expected to provide anything 
more than just the source in a tar.gz format.  It should be left to 
the distributions to package the sw into the appropriate format, 
since that is the entire point behind installing Linux from a 
"distribution".

>I think the gnucash development has to offer a simpler way to install gnucash 
>for the non specialist users. This is why I spoke about a "Red Carpet" like 
>installation script. In addition, this will be useful if there are more and 
>more required packages in the future of gnucash.

I disagree.  The developers of GnuCash, or any sw package should be 
expected or required to do anything but provide the source tar-ball.
Anything else they spend their time on detracts from the time and 
effort they are able to spend on developing the sw itself.

While I don't disagree that an install-gremlin may be usefull to many 
people, why have multiple groups of people spinning their wheels to 
duplicate the efforts of each other.

RedCarpet already exists.  When Ximian gets around to incorporating 
GnuCash into their Gnome distribution, everyone will be able to use 
that.  When the various distributions get around to incorporating 
GnuCash into their releases, then it can be easily installed from 
the distro CD.

If you can't wait until it becomes main-stream, then, by definition, 
you are what is referred to as an "Early Adopter", and therefore, 
must, as we say, "Deal with a certain amount of pain".

Of course, if you'd like to contribute the code for this 
install-gremlin, I'm sure no one will turn it down :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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