Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] JAZZ ease of installation

[Dave F. <dav...@co...>]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:32 pm, Patrick Earl wrote:
> BTW, I removed the automatically generated configure and Makefile.in
> files from the CVS.  It probably wasn't such a great idea to put them
> there in the first place.  I left the .xpm files there for people who
> don't have the bmptoppm, etc. utilities.

Thank you.  :)  I was going to mention it when I noticed my last commit 
updating all the generated stuff.

We should look at using xpm on windows and Mac instead of bmp, I think.  It's 
supposed to be supported by wx2.4.  Then we can get rid of the non-xpm stuff 
and just use xpm for graphics.

Dave

>         Patrick
>
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 12:09, Matt Kelly wrote:
> > 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.
>
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