Re: [Webware-discuss] FFK status?

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:15, Stuart Donaldson wrote:
> If bundling isn't the right answer currently, then there should be a
> link off of the Webware HomePage to additional kits for use with
> Webware.  Has anyone got a good list we can use?  Short of that, I
> could see pulling several items from Ian's page:
> http://www.colorstudy.com/software/webware/ which lists the packages
> he mentioned here.

There's:
http://webware.sourceforge.net/ThirdParty.shtml

Which needs some of my stuff added at least, and could stand to be
linked more prominently.  I put an extra call out for more packages.

> Maybe if we had a "contrib" directory in a Webware release that
> included these other kits?   We wouldn't need to maintain the kits in
> Webware's CVS, but just include updated copies in a release. 

My experience with contrib directories from a user perspective has been
very inconsistent -- they're full of strange stuff, or sometimes just
empty; I now tend to ignore them.  Organizationally I think we should
stick to listing the packages, and if we want to do one better we'd have
a single page that links directly to the packages with brief install
instructions (many of them can be installed very easily, just by
unpacking into the Webware/ directory).

We could certainly include some more packages in Webware, though
probably only for the next release.  Maybe we can do that as soon as
we're through with the beta.

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