On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, James Green wrote:
I thought Slack 5 had just entered devel? Not even mozilla-like yet ;-)
Not sure it's even that far - last I heard, the slack5 directory had only just been created <g>
BUT, how easy is it to make .debs?
I've never had to -
I must admit, the only thing holding me back from Debian is the uncertainty over building .debs myself and availability of official ones.
Availability on unstable is VERY good - I just about never have to grab a tarball, and what Debian doesn't have I can usually get from the perl shell. If all else fails, it's possible to do the "tar zxf; make; make install" routine.
Well at least Windows has the one dominent system that practically *everyone* conforms to
Doesn't mean it's any good though. How often have you installed a package on Windows only to find it overwrites files belonging to other programs, or removed one and had half your system go to?
which I why I say a standard-across-distros GNU Packager is needed.
Indeed; InstallShield for nux would be nice...
Andrew.
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