On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 06:10:36PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Help create properly autotooled rpm transparently for people that don't
care about infrastructure stuff. You already have cluster managers that
use rpm as a payload. That takes care of the deployment, of the
interfering stuff in /usr/local, etc
Ok, I am not really knowledgable on that matters. Is there something
viewable, usable?
You focus too much on the current technical solution and not enough
on
user needs. The problem is not to replicate the same old & broken
solution ad vitam eternam but to make the correct technical solution
attractive enough for users to switch.
I am very open to new solutions, but the use of static libs is not
necessarily broken in all cases.
I won't share nuggets of ass-backwards common wisdom here,
I don't understand that sentence, ca donne quoi en francais ?
that would
strike to close to my employer systems, but sometimes you need to
re-asses why a particular solution was chosen at a time and if you can
not achieve the original goals better now with stuff that was not
available a decade ago.
Once again I am open to new stuff, but I haven't seen anything that
would be as simple and effective as building statically (in the case of
specific scientific apps I am referring to, of course). And the long
thread on fedora-devel only comfort that view since people complained
about dstatically compiling but only proposed very complicated
alternatives. If those alternatives can be automated and give the same
advantages, it could become usable, but currently this is not the case
(or nobody pointed to the right solution).
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Pat