Changes between Version 42 and Version 43 of WikiStart


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Nov 21, 2008, 8:21:43 AM (15 years ago)
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Bryan Gartner
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    99I met a lot of Open Source project which are suffering from the same barrier for their adoption as mondo suffered in the past: without native packaging for your distribution you have much less people testing your software, trying it, less chance to be integrated in distributions, ...
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    11 Then I wanted to also work on another project called [http://trac.dploy.org dploy.org] which uses the great [http://www.LinuxCOE.org LinuxCOE]. However that LinuxCOE project had exactly the same issue as previously mentioned, no packaging, no install from CVS, so smaller community. And in order for me to put something on a production server, I want it packaged :-)
     11Then I wanted to also work on another project called [http://trac.dploy.org dploy.org] which uses the great [http://www.LinuxCOE.org LinuxCOE]. However that LinuxCOE project had exactly the same issue as previously mentioned, no packaging, only installs from CVS or tarballs, so smaller community. And in order for me to put something on a production server, I want it packaged :-)
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    1313So I decided it could be a good idea to reuse the scripts made for mondo to package LinuxCOE. However, they were too specific, even if the ideas could be reused (that was my 3rd generation of build scripts, so ideas were more advanced than the code). And thus was project-builder.org born !