Re: [cadcdev-tiki] Linux on the Desktop

[Atani <at...@at...>]

On 11/26/2005, "Sam Steele" <sam...@gm...> wrote:
>Kind of curious if anyone here has any preferences about distributing
>software for Linux.  For DCSquares, offering a source tarball wasn't
>an option, because of the high score code, so I distribute it using
>the Loki installer.  Does anyone have any major likes or dislikes of
>loki_setup?

I have not used the Loki tools myself but they should be fine to use.=20
Another alternative to sending a full source tarball is to provide an
libfoo.a type file for the bits you do not want to distribute the code
for, just be sure to use non-debug compilation flags and strip any debug
flags from the archive.

>
>With TikiBlap, it will be possible to offer a source tarball that
>people can configure / make / make install, but should I also offer a
>loki_setup archive?  Generating deb or tgz packages for the millions
>of flavors of linux is out of the question -- the most I can generate
>here are Ubuntu and Slackware.

Make sure you create an RPM file and make it "generic" to the platforms
if you can.  This will allow you to cover most, if not all, available
linux distributions.

Mike