[jazzplusplus-devel] JAZZ ease of installation

[Matt K. <ra...@ch...>]

All,

This may be a bit premature, but I feel we need to keep in mind
which environments we want JAZZ to be able to run in.

The old JAZZ would work OK on Windoze and most Linuxes distros
without much problem.

I worry that the shiny new JAZZ will only run on the latest distros
with all the latest bleeding edge packages installed, and nothing
else! If this happens, adoption will be slow -- if using the latest
JAZZ requires one to upgrade one's distro, that will be a problem,
IMHO.

I'm not saying we need to support Slackware 1.0 or anything, but
whatever we do, we need to make sure that it will install fairly
easily on most reasonably current systems. We need to be sure we
supply all needed RPMs, etc. right in our section of the
sourceforge site, if at all possible, and clearly state which RPMs
are needed in which situations.

Another thing I worry about is the possibility of hosing a user's
system up by forcing them to install, for example, GTK2.x. I've
heard of situations where doing so made their X sessions not run
anymore, since they were based on GTK1.x.

The easier it is for people to install and use JAZZ, the more
people will use it.

Anyway, sorry to ramble, too much coffee this morning!

Matt K.