Hi, I just read this: http://ianmurdock.com/?p=388 It's a blog about why software installation sucks on Linux. He is right with many of his statements, we all experienced that in the past. Distributions took that job and improved a lot. But still there are problems: For ISVs, for organisations who want to stay distribution independent and for the lots of developers whos work did not yet make it to a distribution. It's very much work to maintain all the building instructions for the various distributions out there in case you just want to code (and unfortunately people like to use your code) and your hobby is not packaging. You hardly have a chance to get many rpms for your project from outside unless it's really prominent. That's another area where the buildservice really can make a difference. Moreover if we in once can think of a more general build description - which could be a meta-description of spec files, we could ease the pain of the people who have to maintain so many different spec files and others for different platforms. Since maintaining lots of stuff is a cost factor for ISVs, I think that would be one additonal argument to port to Linux. True? Klaas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org