Re: [q-lang-users] [pure-lang-users] Debian (and Gentoo?) distribution

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

David Baird wrote:
> It doesn't seem that anyone has yet taken up an effort to get Pure or
> Q into the official Debian package lists.  So, unless someone else has
> a special interest, I was thinking of volunteering to be a package
> maintainer and seek out a sponsor [1] to get the packages into Debian
> (and hopefully propagate into Ubuntu too...?).

That would be much appreciated! (You'd probably need to get the LLVM 
debs updated, too, IIRC they're quite old.)

> I also might look into getting this into Gentoo Portage too.

Alvaro Castro Castilla has already done a Gentoo ebuild of LLVM and 
Pure, see this thread here:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=487DAE08.2070804%40t-online.de

> The other major distro is Fedora, which I am not too keen on

Fedora is RPM-based, so one could probably take Toni Graffy's 
comprehensive openSUSE packages (see the Q and Pure websites for 
pointers) and try to massage them so that they build on Fedora.

However, there already are Q packages for Fedora by Gerard Milmeister, 
again see the Q website for pointers. Maybe one could convince Gerard to 
do packages for Pure as well. Anyone running Fedora here?

> Would this effort be encouraged,

Certainly! If you run into any problems, just post to the mailing list 
and we'll sort them out.

Cheers,
Albert

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