On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <<a href="mailto:gdk@redhat.com">gdk@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
...that can more easily be handled by others.</blockquote><div><br>or: ...that should be automated. <br><br>There are plenty of developers working on non-OLPC things too that don't want to waste time copying and pasting things from the wiki, creating a hand summarization of the upstream website that gets stale, etc. to "package" something. We should look at every single step that creating a software package with a standard build system (autotools or whatever) requires beyond the upstream URL.<br>
<br>For example, one of the OLPC packages there has a hand-rolled Makefile to sed specfiles:<br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/olpc-netutils;a=blob;f=Makefile.fedora;h=eb672a90e47ee7ed520b7431037ab7d502599be2;hb=master">http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/olpc-netutils;a=blob;f=Makefile.fedora;h=eb672a90e47ee7ed520b7431037ab7d502599be2;hb=master</a><br>
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