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

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:06:53AM +0100, Richard Urwin wrote:
> 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 

Links uses multiple third-party libraries as well:
libpng
libjpeg
libtiff
openssl
libX
libSDL
SVGAlib
libgpm

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> 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