Grafpup - Feedback requested
Posted: Fri 23 May 2008, 17:38
http://grafpup.org/news/?p=235
http://www.grafpup.org/news wrote:I have a question to put to anyone reading this blog. I had intended to recompile everything from source for the 3.xx series, but I’m thinking more and more of just syncing with Puppy-4.0. There would be a few caveats if I were to do so, like the fact that Grafpup will have a different package format, but it wouldn’t be hard to write a script to convert a .pet package to the new .tbz format I’m putting into action.
There would of course likely be some major differences, such as the kernel, but it would expand the pool of available packages for Grafpup. Well, it would expand the pool of packages for Puppy as well, because I usually keep the repositories a lot more full than Barry does. Not only that but it would make development go a bit faster and allow me to focus, as I have been doing, on desktop and usability improvements and advancing the state of the programs I’ve been writing specifically for Grafpup.
The upside to the complete recompile would be the chance to use newer versions of a lot of packages, and to select more options. We could possibly even have a Gnome desktop option. Plus, even if I use Puppy as a base there will be a lot of recompiling neccessary where Barry’s choices might differ from my own (for instance whether gtk+ should support svg). And if I did everything from scratch it might make certain things like localization a bit easier to accomplish because I would have the tarballs for the nls packages.