[aklug] Re: Questions on publishing/packaging Linux software

From: <bryanm@acsalaska.net>
Date: Tue Feb 05 2013 - 01:27:32 AKST

On Sat, January 26, 2013 1:01 pm, Josh Rhoades wrote:
> I guess my questions for you are, if you've developed sizable open source
> applications/libraries before:
> - How have you published these things such that the documentation doesn't
> cast the reader into the hell of scouring the man pages and forum posts to
> get your dependencies installed?
> - How have you maintained your releases such that they're easy to
> reproduce, are somewhat platform agnostic, and are friendly to install?

I haven't done the things you're asking about, but I wonder if you've
tried GNU's Autoconf:

https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/

It makes compiling source on differing platforms much easier. I'm
not entirely sure if that's what you're trying to do or not.

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Bryan Medsker
bryanm@acsalaska.net
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