[schooltool-dev] monday dev meeting...

[Jason Straw]

With the caveat that there be an upgrade path to Gutsy's public release.



Tom Hoffman wrote:
> Well, the conclusion was to create a big stinking deb which contains
> in itself all the necessary dependencies, which is appropriate for
> internal use with CanDo but not something that would actually be used
> in Debian or Ubuntu proper.  So we won't actually be backporting all
> the little separate dependency packages well be creating for public
> release in Gutsy.
>
> --Tom
>
> On 5/14/07, Matthew Gallagher <mattva01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well now that I've read the chat for this morning, I think debs are
>> definitely the way to go.
>> I think it is probably easier to create a backport then to manage the
>> upgrade from feisty to gutsy with eggs.
>>
>>
>>  On 5/14/07, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 5/14/07, Jason Straw <lists at misato.us> wrote:
>> > > In all reality, wedding ourselves to Ubuntu/Debian is not a
>> problem, if
>> > > someone wants it for rpm based distros they can figure out how to
>> get it
>> > > compiled and packaged.  As an upstream provider, our job should
>> be to
>> > > put out a tar.gz and maybe a binary package for the distro we
>> care most
>> > > about (and given Mark Shuttleworth's involvement in SchoolTool, this
>> > > isn't even a question...)
>> >
>> > For this question in particular, bear in mind that I'm worried about
>> > what will work best for CanDo's *internal* use -- distributing
>> > directly to the schools they work with.
>> >
>> > --Tom
>> >
>>
>> -- 
>> -Matthew Gallagher