Re: other operative systems?

Stephen Peterson schrieb:
> I think it might open more possibilities if it was Linux-only.  However, 
> could we still have library issues between different Linux distributions?
> 

Hi Stephen,

of course we could get into issues here, but our intention is to be
aware of the problem and very precisely define the range of versions
known to work.

To make this work, our plan is to have a bunch of virtual machines
running and our builddrone doing regular builds on each. But currently
we're just building regularly on the host system, which also is our
reference system (Debian/Lenny). While this isn't an immediately urgent
issue, we really do need help by volunteers to extend the builddrone
and set up virtual machines. Because this is exactly this kind of
stuff which is well defined and isolated and mostly just RTFM.

Btw: Ardour for a long time had a somewhat similar issue (is it resolved now?),
but they were handling it in a somewhat sub-optimal way. (At least that's my
opinion) They just shipped a bunch of libraries alongside with the tarball and
then stated that they won't support builds done with other libs. That's
understandable from a developers POV, but obviously, the first thing
most distributions did was to throw out those libs and replace them
with what was in the current distro. Obviously this caused quite
some friction.
Thus, for me the lession is: *if* we're detecting problems with
some library versions, then we need to have a look how things work
out on a small selection of "most popular distros" (debian, ubuntu, fedora,
gentoo).

Cheers,
Hermann V.