[Indic-computing-devel] Re: What next on Indic?

[<jk...@Fr...>]

> Sure thing now. I should focus on making some Makefiles to be included in
> the downloadable listed on sf.net.

Let me clarify the goals a bit:

Goal 1:  To create the necessary src infrastructure that allows us
	to be able to cvs checkout an Indic-Computing source tree,
	'cd' to src/package-definitions/doc-toolchain/debian,
	and type 'make package' to have 'make' generate the final
	.debs that we upload to the SF.net file release
	system.

Goal 1': -ditto- but to make .rpms.

	Note that we are creating the .debs, or .rpms in this step, not
	installing anything on the build host.  The build host 
	could perhaps be a FreeBSD system which runs Linux software 
        quite well.


Goal 2:  To create/modify/maintain the necessary infrastructure in
	'doc/*' so that a user who, having installed the necessary
	indic-computing .deb/.rpm/.whatever packages would
	be able to type 'make' (or 'freebsdmake') and have the 
	system generate the complete Indic-Computing documentation
	set.

We are nearly there at Goal 2 for Debian systems that install your
".deb" packages.  However, the procedure you followed to create these
".deb"s has still to be automated (i.e. we want others to replicate/maintain 
your work) --- hence Goal 1.

Hope this clarifies.

Regards,
Koshy
<jk...@fr...>