[Radiance-dev] Re: compiling radiance

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Lars O. Grobe wrote:
> Isn't a file INSTALL in the ray directory the right place to collect all
> this information? Having one section "old distributions" in such a file
> would allow to add information on sources such as backports, how to
> compile on old linux distributions and such. Here is also the place to
> collect hints on systems such as solaris, os x, the various windows
> ports - even if we have only urls to sites describing the procedure,
> that way users having problems to install could have a start. In the
> very beginning, the options
> 
> a) binaries from radiance-online.org and radsite

Should we provide packages there, too - at least for older versions of Ubuntu?
For Debian I can upload a package to backports.org - using that should
probably described, too, as the package there is more uptodate than the
version which was part of the release.

> b) binaries coming with distributions
> c) compiling from source (generic using makeall install) should be present,
> 
> than all the special work-arounds.
> 
> I have an ubuntu box running, is there need for an ubuntu maintainer? Be
> aware that I have no (aka zero aka nul) experience with package building
> except making my own ones, but I guess that building on top of Bernd's
> debian work, there are few changes to expect.

Providing ofiicial Ubuntu backports sounds like a lot of work:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

So I still think it's more easy to provide a way to build the packages,
especially since rebuilding them should work without any problems (at least
for all released which shipped with debhelper 5).

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