On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries > (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, > including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian
> Is this a worthwhile endeavor? IMHO - don't. Supply natively compiled packages for each of the distributions that you want to support. This will mean compiling the software up on a number of platforms, but it will produce a result that is far superior to that of a tarball that is trying to be all things to all people. As a system administrator, there's nothing I find more annoying than a vendor who claims to support Linux and then provides a nasty tarball full of unneeded libraries that sit in strange places. As far as I'm concerned, a distribution's native packaging system is there for a reason, and it should be used. In practice - if you're supporting just the major distributions - you'll probably only need to do the packaging twice (a spec file for Redhat Enterprise is likely to work without too many changes on Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake, and the Debian rules can be used to make Ubuntu packages). Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
