Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: install instructions

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:16:45 +0100 (MET)
"Hilmar Berger" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > believe that  the user interface available from within  this postinstall
> > > scrtipts depends heavily on the responding package manager and
> > distribution.
> > Yes.  It's called debconf for Debian and current packages use some
> > debconf questions, but this has to be enhanced.
> From what I could find on the net debconf seems to be very Debian-specific,
> that is, it will almost
> impossible to install/use debconf-aware scripts with a different package
> manager. 
Surely,

if on_debian:
        debconf ('blah blah')
else:
        print ('blah blah')
        r = reply ()

IMHO, we should aim for 3 packages: .deb, RPM and Windows .EXE. I agree they 
should share Python install scripts
where possible. [AFAIK RPM and Windows don't have an equivalent to debconf, so 
we won't be repeating any more work]
 but we should make an some effort to conform with the Debian system because of 
its strength (automatic dependency
downloading, automated installs, etc. 

Ian 

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