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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] On the acceptance of an OO.o extension installer
From:       Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot () laPoste ! net>
Date:       2005-04-27 19:33:48
Message-ID: 1114630428.11387.24.camel () rousalka ! dyndns ! org
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Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 à 15:06 -0400, Daniel Carrera a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > And when I write developpers here I mean "the people that provide software
> > to end-users". I does not mean native packaging should be taken care of by
> > the people who write the extensions, just that this service must be taken
> > care of by someone in the software-producing chain, in our case some group
> > within oo.o, that can be partly composed by people coming from
> > distributions.
> 
> Nicolas, would you be interested in being part of this group within OOo 
> that turns OOo packages into native packages?

I can help getting the ball rolling. I was at a point one of the main
contributors to the JPackage project
(http://www.jpackage.org/, native packaging of java software - now
that's a thankless task if I know one). It got endorsed by Red
Hat/Novell... at about the time when I reduced my involvement, so I
guess we did a lot of things right. I know pretty well how rpm works,
where Red Hat/Fedora packagers hang out, what are the points that make a
piece of software easy or not to package natively

However with experience and years comes less free time for fun stuff, so
I won't be the one doing packaging work long-term. But I know what
native packagers need and the hundred small things that can ruin their
day, so I can help setting up a packaging group.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot


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