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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: starting to write a KDE auto-installer
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-21 14:25:02
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You are advocating forking Red-carpet and adding support 
for KDE? And you would like this fork to be recognized as 
the "official" KDE installer?

Well if someone wants to fork Red-carpet I guess they can, 
(they might be in for some grief if Red-carpet is actively 
maintained). If that fork becomes the best program for 
installing/upgrading KDE then I think the users will 
realize that, and that the program will be recognized as a 
de facto standard.

I think it would be better to wait until the program proves 
itself by virtue of its own merit before gifting it with 
the formal recognition of being the "official" KDE 
installer. 

I think this makes sense for any application program, and 
especially makes sense in the case of an installer which is 
arguable a program better implemented by individual 
distributors rather than a KDE project.

Don.

On Tuesday 21 August 2001 13:01, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> So the question remains - if the KDE team will adopt
> red-carpet as an offical X86 installers (I doubt other
> platforms needs it since they got an established
> packaging mechanism and the last thing they need is an
> installer - like Sun or SGI).

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