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Re: Suggesstion



Adrian Ratnapala wrote:

>> One thing that would be nice if a Game developer wrote one install
>> script.
>> The install script would know what WM the user was using.  Then the Game
>> 
>This is of course not just a PPlay issue but a Unix-wide one.
>
>If we were doing this we would want a shell script.  And we would
>want it to go snooping around the user's config files automagically,
>and maybe an easy way for developers to generate the script.  I'm
>thinking automake here.  A sort of configure-script-for-the-binary.
>We it could use the autoconf base and be extended from there.
>A system like this can then be scaled to offer smart uninstall with
>or without a native package manager on the host,  package integrity
>checking etc. all without toooo much effort from the package author.

Sounds very good. I'll put a description of the thing on the "Projects
wanted" part of the LGDC site as soon as it's accessible again (the site is
pretty much bogged down as result of the announcement yesterday ;)

Cu
	Christian
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