Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 27, 2011 0:23 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by garloff
Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

I am aware of that as I have already indicated before but If I am a end user, I don't want to be building packages in any build service. That's just ridiculous. If it is not in my distribution repository then I just want to install Firefox 4 from a obvious place. mozilla.org would the most obvious location.

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 27, 2011 0:27 UTC (Thu) by garloff (subscriber, #319) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, I don't suggest end users should build most of their software themselves. But someone can do it. Most obvious choice would be the
upstream community itself.

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 27, 2011 1:57 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Upstream has enough work cut out for them just getting the base to work (and fix bugs), asking them to also track whatever a few hundred (eo even just a dozen "mainstream") distributions are up to is just over the top.