Re: [Celestia-developers] Celestia 1.3.2 update

[Christophe T. <ch...@te...>]

Le Samedi 28 Ao=FBt 2004 01:33, Fridger Schrempp a =E9crit=A0:
> -- I ask myself why Christophe has submitted the 'official' Mandrake
> distribution to SF , already 5 days ago (!), before a consistent
> 'policy' about how to handle the various Linux flavours and
> desktop-versions had emerged...Now we cannot change things anymore for
> 1.3.2 on SF.

I made them available (see annoucement to the list) the day Chris released =
the=20
Windows version, on the 19th. That was 4 days before Pat made the suggestio=
n=20
of changing the packaging policy (on the 24th).

Chris uploaded the packages to SF on the 23rd.

> -- The more I read about this increasing 'inflation', the more I am put
> off...Some of you might remember my longstanding critical attitude in
> this respect. To distribute 4 Linux versions per distribution just
> sounds insain to me... Linux is simply going to 'implode' very soon;-)

I don't understand, you did ask for the packaging of the other versions in=
=20
addition to the KDE one, didn't you?

Le Mardi 24 Ao=FBt 2004 21:25, Fridger Schrempp a =E9crit=A0:
> Are we supposed to only package Celestia-KDE? If
> yes, why? If  NO,  how to  go about the /identical/ texture files for
> the 3 flavors etc?

?

> --I don't find it very cool if  Celestia  >=3D 1.3.2 is being distributed
> now  with different wrappers at  separate "KDE and GNOME sites"
> (Christophe & Pat, respectively)  /besides SF/.

I made the wrapper script a part of the spec file because 1.3.2 was already=
=20
out. For the future releases we should include an official wrapper in cvs a=
nd=20
modify the build system so that the binaries are created with the correct=20
suffixed name.

> -- Christophes 'unification' attempt looks far too complex  for my
> taste.  Sure, it is virtually trivial to understand for my little
> brain;-),  but  as a /general/ strategy it appears non-convincing to me...

Maybe that's because that was done as an after-thought in the case of 1.3.2=
=2E=20
Would it be more convincing if, as I mention above, that were integrated in=
=20
the source and build system?

=2D-=20
Christophe