[Xastir-dev] Auto-packaging

[David Flood]

Question from the Peanut Gallery...

Do they have to be binary packages or can they just be a placeholder script
that then uses GIT  or FTP to pull the latest stuff down and compiles it?
Sorta a modification of the "fetch tarball and compile" model that Gentoo
uses..

Dave
KD7MYC

-----Original Message-----
From: Xastir-dev [mailto:xastir-dev-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of
Curt Mills
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:28

It's been suggested that our current method of having non-project people do
packaging on an ad-hoc basis isn't working. Often the packages available in
various Linux distributions are years old.

<snip>

Not sure what to do about other OS'es. Setting up VM's / Docker instances
for several different current OS'es to do packaging might be a full-time
job. Even after the initial bunch of work, adding newer OS'es and keeping
things running might also be a full-time job.

Thoughts?