Re: gEDA-user: How we solved installation on Unix

[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 28 Oct 2005 22:32, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Our web browser (I wrote 1/4 of it) is a single executable.
> Everything is compiled in, including font data.

A degenerate solution is no help for the general case. gEDA uses 
multiple third-party libraries, and comprises multiple independently 
developed applications.

Yes, gEDA needs to get better at installing and uninstalling. I'm sure 
this is known by the developers. However developers are not the best 
people to make this happen; they spend all day compiling bits and 
pieces, but they hardly ever run the install tool or the uninstall 
tool, and they never get into .so hell. People like you and me are the 
best people to work on this - users without a full and correct 
development environment and with strange and unexpected machine 
configurations.

Since I'm the best person for the job, I'm not going to complain that 
nobody is fixing it.

-- 
Richard Urwin