Re: GNUSTEP/linux

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:34  Uhr, Helge Hess wrote:

> Philippe C.D.Robert wrote:
> > Of course, I will definitely have a look at it - the last thing I 
> > want is to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Then, you should also take a look at RedCarpet:
>
>   http://developer.ximian.com/projects/rcd/
>
> It's pretty cool, does all the management and updating of almost any 
> RPM and Debian based system and can be accessed using XML-RPC (as 
> demonstrated by the Python cmdline client "rc") !

I know that it is cool, but this requires RPMs which is not an (good) 
option on *BSD, Windows or other systems. Also what I am looking for is 
a simple solution which only requires GNUstep Base to work. It doesn't 
require tons of nifty features - it should just work and solve the 
basic problem of installing/updating a working GNUstep desktop in a few 
steps only.

> At least for bootstrapping and keeping the "core" system up-to-date 
> this should be pretty nice. For GNUstep I'm missing the capability to 
> select library combos contained in the packages, but maybe this could 
> be resolved at a higher level (eg having a RPM/DEB naming scheme for 
> files).

For bootstrapping GNUstep itself I think a set of RPMs or other 
hostsystem native packages will do it (for now). I see the problem more 
on the 'apps side', I know of at least a few people who installed 
GNUstep and expected sth like NEXTSTEP afterwards. This is what I want 
to address with the 'desktop' thingy.

-Phil
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