[gobo-eiffel-develop] Raising the visibility level

[Colin P. A. <co...@co...>]

For some reason, while I was monitoring another strange bug a few
minutes ago, the thought occured to me to try and get Gestalt into the
Linux distributions - it would be a way to raise the visibility of
Eiffel (showing more people that it is actually used for real).

I only know the Fedora packaging at all well (and that not very well),
but I would guess that all the Linux distributions would insist on
compilable packaging being available, not just binaries.

In Fedora then, a gestalt.rpm would depend upon an eposix.rpm which
would in turn depend upon a gobo.rpm (no need to depend upon
eiffelstudio now that gec is usable for real to some extent) and the
boehm garbage collector (I don't if this is distributed in any
distributions currently).

If we were to do this, then I think aiming for for a gobo package
based on 3.8 would be a sensible target, with eposix to come as soon
after that as Berend felt ready.

What do people (especially Eric and Berend) think?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire