[Chandler-dev] Network installer/launcher for Leopard

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> I am not sure I follow you. Exactly because Leopard does not have
> package system I proposed the easy_install model. On Ubuntu we should
> NOT do easy_install, because this should be covered by the package
> system (unless easy_install somehow invoked the package manager on
> Ubuntu). Yes, there really are python-m2crypto, python-thisandthat packages.

easy_install doesn't cover any of the large systems that could have an impact 
on download size. Sure, we can use easy_install for all the python packages 
that are present on some systems already, that would be an improvement over 
our current distribution system. I thought you were concerned about 
download size, though.

> The problem is that there are many Java runtimes for Ubuntu (and other
> Linux systems). We could easily build against one, and make it a
> dependency, but it would suck for users who have some other Java
> installed already as they would then have two Java runtimes.

How about building from sources :) ?

> I don't agree that adding more dependencies to Java would be a good
> thing. While PyLucene are JCC are cool, I would be much happier if we
> didn't need to do it.

And why is that ?

Andi..