[bt-devel] rpms

[Brook Humphrey]

On Saturday 05 May 2001 02:54 am, you wrote:
> Some ideas on conventions concerning rpm creation:
>
> From 1.0 on we should
> -always compile sword in statically (but not call the rpm "static", which
> could be confusing [users do not know what is compiled in statically, qt,
> kde, sword, ...])
> -give detailed names to the rpms indicating their target distribution
> better (e.g. mandrake_8 instead of mdk, redhat_7 instead of rh, ...)

the reason for the naming i used is because that is the standard for mandrake 
the others have no standard so that can be however we choose to do it. Also 
the rpm's when you open it to install already state what system and cpu the 
rpm is for.

> -provide no sword rpms. that should be done on the sword project page
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword
> (Brook, I'll add you to the project there. It would be good to offer the
> module rpms there, categorized after module types and languages. Agreed?)

Sword is already compiled in static so this is no problem.

>
> Just proposals. Please comment.
>
> May I remind you that after the 1.0 release we want to take a development
> break and have a time of promotion. Could you please make proposals on what
> we could do therefore (slashdot article(?), newsforge etc.) and who could
> do it?
> I'd like to have some logo that users can put on their webpages to link to
> bibletime (like the gimp etc. logo). What do you think of that idea? Do you
> know somebody who could do that (or could you do it)?

These i'm not so good at I can do quick stuff with the gimp but i'm not a 
graphic artist.

>
> Martin

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