[seul-edu] ISO--autopackage for an installer?

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

I know it may not look like it to the casual observer, but the 
ISO project is continuing to move forward.  I'd like to get some 
opinions from you all.

One of the goals of the ISO project is to be 
distribution-neutral.  We've taken that to mean that all the 
software we package should be available as RPMs, DEBs, and TGZs, 
so they can be installed on any distro that uses any of these 
systems.  I've been looking at Synaptic 
<http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/> as an installer that we could 
use for all these packages.

I've recently found out about autopackage 
<http://autopackage.org/>.  It's intended to be a distro-neutral 
installer with many nice features.  I wonder if it might not be 
the best way for us to go.

Here's one thing I'm not sure of.  Another goal of our project is 
to have our repository of educational apps be available to the 
distro makers to adapt and include in their distros if they 
choose to do so.  Would going with something like autopackage 
make this much more difficult or preclude it entirely?  If so, 
would the benefits of autopackage outweigh the costs?

Please take a look at both Synaptic and autopackage (and any 
other installers you know about that you think might be useful) 
and give us your thoughts.  Thanks, everyone.

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