[opensuse-packaging] Framewave binaries
Hi, Please provide packages for Framewave library from the oss repos. I really need it. The license is Apache, so that should be no problem. It can be found at http;//framewave.sourceforge.net It's already in the science wishlist. -- Rohit Garg Junior Undergraduate Department of Physics IIT Bombay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Rohit Garg <rpg.314@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Please provide packages for Framewave library from the oss repos. I really need it. The license is Apache, so that should be no problem. It can be found at http;//framewave.sourceforge.net It's already in the science wishlist.
Hi You know you can package it yourself very easily and make it available to everyone? Check out http://build.opensuse.org If you need any help you know where to find us ;) Cheers -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, CyberOrg wrote:
You know you can package it yourself very easily and make it available to everyone?
Packaging is not very easy for everyone and even knowledgable packagers frequently have to do a lot of work to maintain their packages. If necessary software isn't available for a distribution, users will go elsewhere, especially when told "do it yourself" when they make a simple request. Nick Matsakis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Nick Matsakis <nmatsakis@novell.com> wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, CyberOrg wrote:
You know you can package it yourself very easily and make it available to everyone?
Packaging is not very easy for everyone and even knowledgable packagers frequently have to do a lot of work to maintain their packages. If necessary software isn't available for a distribution, users will go elsewhere, especially when told "do it yourself" when they make a simple request.
I am a user, I started packaging stuff that I liked using, at first I sucked at it(I still make many mistakes), then Gladiac, darix and other people at #opensuse-buildservice helped fix many mistakes I made in spec files, now guess what, I "officially" maintain Compiz Fusion packages for the distribution :). There are other packages that might never make it into the distro, but would still be available for anyone who wants to use them. It really is easy if there is someone to help you and openSUSE Build Service makes it quite convenient. Have a lot of fun! -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
I have looked at OBS and while it is a great idea, I am afraid there are other reasons why I did not start doing such things myself. My laptop seems to be tux unfreindly. I use opensuse 10.2 only because no other distro will install on it. And that includes fedora 5,6,7,8, ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10 and suse 10.1,10.3. Yes, forget working mostly (not always), they just hang during installation. To compound mystery and misery, it's a $1000 approx laptop bought in Dec 2006. I desperately want to upgrade but I dont know which one will come next so I am stuck. My point is that I didnt do it because it will take me a lot of effort to get started and it could all go down the drain as I might have to switch to a completely different distro/version anytime. Already I am having a few problems as I can't find some packages for 10.2 on the official repos (they are only available for 10.3). -- Rohit Garg Junior Undergraduate Department of Physics IIT Bombay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Rohit Garg <rpg.314@gmail.com> wrote:
so I am stuck. My point is that I didnt do it because it will take me a lot of effort to get started and it could all go down the drain as I might have to switch to a completely different distro/version anytime. Already I am having a few problems as I can't find some packages for 10.2 on the official repos (they are only available for 10.3).
Did you know you can build packages for most top distros on the build service? Even if you moved to something else, it would be good learning experience. Ciao :) -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
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