[Kolab-devel] Brain Dump of the Week: Ideas, Plans and Realities ...

[Mathieu Parent]

Hello,


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Sascha Wilde <wilde at intevation.de> wrote:
> Hi *,

> 2. Packaging and Distribution Future
>
> (snip)

Benoit pointed me to project-Builder: http://trac.project-builder.org/.

<quote>
Project-Builder.org aims to provide support to the "Continuous
Packaging" approach. The mantra is "Package early, package often".

Project-Builder.org is a tool that helps you build packages for your
application (provided as tar file, or through a configuration
management system such as CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, or Git). It is
able to generate build package skeleton for your project, and with
simple configuration files to generate for up to 50 different tuples
of distributions (name, version, architecture), including Fedora,
Mandriva, OpenSuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware.

It provides a macro system to help you keep common what needs to stay
common between distributions, and helps you build Virtual Machines
(VMs) (QEMU, KVM) or Virtual environments (VEs) (chroot, rinse) easily
to create native packages for the distributions you want to support.
</quote>

I have not tested it yet. The reference implementation can then be
Gentoo (if source-based distribution is wanted) or another one (Debian
;) ?).


Mathieu Parent