Re: [Astlinux-users] DISTRO TO USE DEV ENVIROMENT

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 5/2/07, Darrick Hartman <dha...@dj...> wrote:
> Niksa Baldun wrote:
> > I am no expert, but I believe that host distro is arbitrary... you can
> > use whichever you like the best.
> > Niksa Baldun
> >
> While that is true, most of the development has been done with CentOS as
> the host distro.  As long as you have the correct tools installed, you
> should be able to use any distro.
>
> Darrick
>

  Very true.  I routinely test and build the dev environment (trunk
only) on CentOS 4.4, Ubuntu Feisty and Ubuntu Dapper.  Using multiple
distros and hardware combinations has exposed several bugs that I
wouldn't have found otherwise.  I encourage users to use their
favorite distro and report on any problems they have.

  I have also added a dependency checker that will check your host
system and make sure you have everything installed.  It's a work in
progress, but it tests for almost everything used in trunk.


-- 
Kristian Kielhofner