Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread D-Man
It would be best to have a system set up to test on, but if it runs on Unix and doesn't do anything that is system/implementation dependent it should work. What they probably really mean is they would like you to create a Debian specific package they can install. This simply means making th

Re: Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
> Simon Broad wrote: > > I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a > Unix product to Debian. > > This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the > product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available > will a port on one of these be OK?

Porting applications to Debian

2000-12-15 Thread Simon Broad
I'm pretty new to Linux, but have been asked by a customer to port a Unix product to Debian.   This may sound daft to a lot of you, but would I need to port the product on a Debian box or, as I already have SuSE and RH available will a port on one of these be OK?   I'm sure there are many