QuteCom Packaging
what is a software package ?
A software package is a group of components that together create the software. These components naturally include the executables that comprise the software, but they may also include meta-information files and can also include other information files and scripts.
Under GNU/Linux, you can find several types of packages standard (.deb, .rpm, ...). Under Windows and MacOSX, other best practices exist for packaging.
The Art of packaging takes a lot of knowledge of the target system, mostly because dependency management is a hard thing to achieve.
How is QuteCom packaged ?
under GNU/Linux
Under GNU/Linux, a lot of effort is being made by the QuteCom community to find the best solution to a very hard problem:
- discover and adapt to the default installed libraries on a given distribution
- innovate while avoiding the most recent versions of software that is not packaged by QuteCom
- debug or modify some behavior of external libraries and then try to submit patches upstream in the original project (and try to get the commited)
A specific page will be dedicated to hold information about packaging under Linux?
under Windows
A specific page will be dedicated to hold information about packaging under windows
under MacOSX
A specific page will be dedicated to hold information about packaging under MacOSX?
The common grounds
Some aspects of packaging are common to all platforms or at least must be faced under each platform. They are listed here
references
- source tarball helper scripts :
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