Re: [Gramps-devel] looking for .rpm and .exe of GRAMPS 3.1.0

[Jérôme <rom...@ya...>]

Stéphane,


I agree, but nobody will be able to provide a RPM without a spec file, 
which lists specific dependencies for each distributions based on RPM 
(Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuse, ...) and present on src.rpm from listed URLs.
Maybe if maintainers for RPM packages know that Gramps-3.1 has been 
released, then Gramps-3.1 will be added on programs available for this 
distributions. As it is a new major release, need to be tested on 
distribution. If not, Gramps project will still get some bug-report 
related to Gramps-2.2.10 (13 months ago) after users did a fresh 
distribution installation or questions about GCONF and Yelp ! Can we 
import GRAMPS XML files generated on 2.2.x into Gramps-3.1 ?
True, RPMs and DEB on sourceforge is a good alternative but only 
distributions support multiple architectures (x64, PPC, x86, ...) and 
are the first entry for users.

Previous provocation should be my last one for Windows OS and I suppose 
Gramps.exe can run on Windows 95-98-2000-NT-XP-Vista.
I agree more people use gramps more Gramps get a chance for growing and 
so many people trying Gramps under Windows is also a good news. :)

Note, Lars Vogdt points out the OpenSuse Build Service :
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service
Unfortunatly, my distribution is too old for testing !



Jérôme


Stéphane Charette a écrit :
>> For RPMs, we listed some URLs before:
>>
> 
> Listing URLs of pages with complex instructions isn't good for most
> people.  I doubt most of our users want to figure out how to create
> their own RPMs from the source.  They'd probably rather we have a .rpm
> file on the SF download page.
> 
> Personally, even I don't want to venture into the land of .rpm and
> .exe.  I build the Ubuntu .deb files because I can at least test those
> myself, and I'm relatively confident I've done it correctly.  But I
> have almost zero interest in installing Fedora Core in a VM to create
> the .rpm file.
> 
> Stéphane
>