Re: [Civil-devel]More distutils

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Gareth Noyce wrote:

>>> Well, I've got a feeling OS X will have it's own one, so you're
>>> basically making an installer for non existent windows users and maybe
>>> annoying linux ones? Not sure, basically :)
>>
>> Hm, you mean the Linux users are annoying or that we'd annoy them?
>
>Latter. I thought Unix beards expected ./config and make?! ;)

No, at least I don't prefer that approach. Packages are best, and I don't
care too much where the files end up, as long as things just work. An
archive that you can just unzip and then use without installing is second
best. Third and as a lowest common evil comes the ./configure circus.

>> Maybe we shouldn't really try to do it installable at all, just keep
>> it as
>> an academic research project. If anyone ever plays it, then it has
>> failed.
>
>Too late! Someone installed it!
>
>Anyway, I'd would like something inclusive for all platforms, for
>sanity. Don't think we can do that, and as I'm not touching win32 I
>wouldn't want to bend something that would be easy on Linux just for
>win32 ;)

Maybe we can just rely on some user from the Win32 camp to do the Open
Source dance and help out...

But what is wrong with just a zip/tar.gz/bundle that can simply be opened
and directly used? For instance Enemy Territory for Linux works like that.
On Windows the user can just drag the Civil folder from WinZip to Program
Files and be done with it... Of course doing shortcuts and menu stuff can
be done later as an added service.

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       distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy."

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