Re: Is there any chance of a .deb file for wxEuphoria?
- Posted by jmduro Aug 28, 2015
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Looking at this list, we can see how you solved all of them with your AIO installer. But, if we were to factor out just the third one, I think you'll find a worthy project. What if we could write a simple dependency file and a program that could use whatever package manager it finds on the target machine to go get what it needs? If you can then write a tool that can generate the dependency list, you might have something that the Linux community could use in general. Software developers could simply focus on writing their software and not have to worry to much about building package after package for each Linux distro they are interested in targeting.
Be warned though, the idea seems simple but I'm sure there are dragons hiding in those shadows.
Hi Ronald,
That is what the code already does. All that is listed in "dependencies.txt" is installed via apt-get install. It can be easily adapted to detect whatever installer is available but what if more than one is available: yum and apt-get or yum and rpm.
One could say take one of them and do the job, but it ain't that easy. On my Mint distribution, I'm sure apt-get is working, but I can also install yum and yum can be present but it's database not initialized. Using yum in such a context would lead to problems. So detecting available installers is not enough.
Regards
Jean-Marc
