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William A. Hoffman wrote:<br>
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There are plans to add RPM support to CPack which could be used to create
rpms. What we really need is a set of volunteers that will be the point
person for each distribution. I think we have a debian support person,
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It's definitely an excellent thing to do. Unfortunately I don't do
Linux at all, so I'm not volunteering. That could change in the future
once the Playstation 3 comes out, if I understand its system specs
correctly, so I have a peripheral interest in long term Linux stuff.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am currently doing cygwin releases.
(Although I still need to get 2.4.2 out to cygwin...)
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When I went to test Chicken on Cygwin, I was pleased to have an
installable CMake. It was unfortunate that it was an earlier CMake,
and that I had to compile 2.4.2, but having something did help. I
usually do MinGW / MSYS development and the Windows CMake works just
fine for that.<br>
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Is there any overlap between Cygwin packaging mechanisms and Linux
ones? If there is, then I'd be willing to at least test on Cygwin.
I'm not willing to shoulder the whole thing. My main priority is
kicking Chicken Scheme into shape on MinGW / MSYS and then on VC++,
especially with the free compiler downloads. I don't do Cygwin, I'm
not really motivated to work on that platform, but I'd be somewhat
motivated if it overlaps with Linux stuff. Currently I do use Cygwin
as somewhat of a proxy for Linux testing; I don't know how valid that
is.<br>
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Are there any overlaps between Linux and Mac packaging mechanisms? As
a game developer I'm more interested in the Mac than Linux. Not that I
have a Mac; I'm just trying to understand if any packaging mechanisms
are more "lingua franca" than others.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Brandon Van Every<br>
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