Compatibility between Ubuntu and GNOME developer strategies

[Phil Bull]

Hi James,

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:18 -0500, James Westby wrote:
> A few others and I are working on a tool which we hope will abstract the
> packaging part of this. I don't think that the package format should be
> necessarily tied to the technologies that will be used to produce the
> application.
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/pkgme
> 
> The tool is inspired by quickly, stdeb, python-mkdebian and debhelper,
> and aims to generate the packaging by looking at the code.
> 
> Once it is up to scratch I would like to propose it to implement the
> "package" command of quickly, which could then be shared across
> templates.
> 
> It would be easy for someone to extend pkgme to generate an rpm spec
> file, or any other packaging format.
> 
> I think this would be particularly attractive to GNOME, as it would mean
> that you didn't have to favour a particular distribution for packaging
> of the code.
> 
> I haven't talked much about the project yet as I am putting together
> some documentation for people who want to write "backends" for it. Once
> we have a few of those then we can encourage application authors to make
> use of the tool.

That sounds excellent! I've emailed the gnome-devtools list about it
[1]. Hopefully, we can get a few people together to work on getting this
(or something similar) supported in GNOME development tools like Anjuta.

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2010-December/msg00006.html

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