From: Graeme N. <gni...@tp...> - 2004-03-21 01:38:21
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On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:41, Don Allingham wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 21:36, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > My question is this... Is it absolutely necessary to head in this > > direction? Why can't we make do with the modules standard to RH 8. How > > many gramps users will stay on the older versions because of this need > > to be on the bleeding edge? Is it the intention for gramps to be the > > genealogy program of choice for hackers? or is it intended for the > > mainstream user who simply wants a good tool for the job? >=20 > Well, what would you define as the base level? You may say RH8, others > may say (and have said) RedHat 7.3. How far do we go back? RH8 is > considered by RedHat to be obsolete and is no longer supported by Red > Hat. Don, a very good question. I know that RedHat have made V8 obsolete and V9 will be very soon, but..., RedHat is pushing their enterprise versions which are based on RH V8/V9,and for very good reasons I believe. These versions are very stable and are more suitable for the desktops RedHat is trying to reach where stability and ease of use is paramount. They're going to be around for a long time yet. =20 > GRAMPS does its best to handle the current state of things. For example, > the LPRDoc.py is not necessarily a hard requirement. If you don't have > gnome-python 2.0 (which provides the gnome-print functionality), LPRDoc > will not work, but GRAMPS will continue to function. You haven't lost > any functionality, you just aren't getting the newest additional > functionality. My gramps installation has ALWAYS worked 'out of the box' to coin a phrase. The work put into gramps by yourself, Alex and all the others is to be admired and appreciated. I certainly appreciate it. I realise that you come up against Linux's Achilles heel nearly all the time, the huge variation in distributions and their included packages. However, I have lost potential functionality in that I cannot take advantage of what I consider to be a very useful plugin. My concern was that perhaps gramps, particularly the plugins, may be heading in a direction that would entail having to stay on the bleeding edge in that certain libraries, which have their own peculiar dependencies, would need to be installed to take advantage of them and this could lead to instability of one's OS not to mention all the time needed to chase them up and get them installed. This is a 'nice to have' request, and one that I can probably help with, a list of dependencies, for the major distributions, necessary for plugins to work. It could be included in the announcement message. If I could help with this I am willing to do so. EG., LPRDoc.py wont work without gnome-python2-gnomeprint (I don't think there was any mention of that in the announcement). A RedHat 8 user tries to install gnome-python2-gnomeprint and runs into dependency issues and works out how to get it successfully installed. That information could be included in the announcement so that other RedHat 8 users could install it fairly easily. Others using other distributions could do the same. It has the potential to avoid a lot of frustrations I think. Anyway, like I said, the last thing I want to do is cause trouble. Thank you for your help. --=20 Kind regards, Graeme Nichols ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - =20 - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |