Re: Is there any chance of a .deb file for wxEuphoria?
- Posted by SDPringle Aug 28, 2015
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I think it would benefit OpenEuphoria in terms of user base if we could get Euphoria in the package managers of the major distributions. This is a kind of Linux only problem, hundreds of distributions and several distinct packaging systems. Now, that is not the worst of it. Often binaries on one Linux distribution will not work on another distribution (something to do with libc).
Now, suppose for Slackware we had euphoria-base.tgz, euphoria-wx.tgz, euphoria-gtk.tgz, etc... I would just type "installpkg euphoria-*.tgz". In other words, I would just install everything. Like I do for the c library packages. Maybe getting it in the top three distros with everything in one package (our package, wxwidgets, gtk, etc) would be a lot less work than making a package for each one. Although the upgrade path would be horrible!
Python and Perl come with their own distro mechanisms.
I am not saying which one is better, because I don't think I know. I am just laying out issues involved that one has to think about in creating distribution packages.
We already have this for the base package of euphoria for Debian by the way which might encorage other distribution maintainers to include it.
SDPringle
