[schooltool-dev] Re: General Enthusiasm and Questions for SchoolTool 2007 Release

[Tom Hoffman]

On 5/8/07, David Welsh <rdavidw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really don't understand what work and how much of it will be required to
> port CanDo over to Gutsy and its SchoolTool release version, from Feisty.  I
> also don't understand the work required to "back port" SchoolTool from
> Gutsy, back to Feisty.

You just have to think of a version of Ubuntu (e.g. Feisty) as being a
complex interconnected set of packages and dependencies.  Right now,
SchoolTool has a bunch of dependencies which aren't included in
Feisty.  Which is why SchoolTool isn't in Feisty (main).  So we can
make our own packages for those that will work with Feisty, but won't
be part of Feisty as such.  However, they will be part of the overall
Gutsy release.

I guess one other possibility might be to use the Python egg packaging
for this version of CanDo instead of Ubuntu .deb packages.  There are
some disadvantages to this, but it may be way, way easier this time
around, since most if not all of the relevant dependencies already
exist as eggs (not .debs).

--Tom