GNUstep Installation Process

Stefan Urbanek, please modify whatever you see fit, even delete this page.

Given GNUstep's cross-platform declaration on application development activities, so should the application mangement activies cross-platform united.

GNUstep installation process should be and could be as simple as "pkg-inst GNUstep-1.0" across GNUstep supported OS plaforms. But in oder to get there, following need to be done.

GNUstep package creation automation project.

• What?: This is a project to automate the process of creating GNUstep environment for a perticular OS platform.

• Why?:
  • Lots of time is spent by experienced GNUsteppers to assist new GNUsteppers with compiling the source, and this waste will continue to occur unless we resolve certain issues.
  • Time can be better spent on GNUstep developement, and not on the compling and packaging process.
  • Easy installation and removal of GNUstep encourges the deployment of GNUstep in corporate environments.
  • The softare adn pacakge creation processes can be reproduced easliy by others with simple commands.
  • Improves QA testing by generating GNUstep bug fixed instances quickly.

Plan

• Introduce CPAM(Cross-Platform Application Management) tool implemented by TWW Inc. to GNUstep CPAD community
  • Cross-Platform is easier said then done becuase each platform's features are barriers for others.

• Release GNUstep package source implemented by TWW CPAM.
  • I will release a working package source for others to try and review.
  • The package soruces can generate native package format for RHAS rpm,Solaris pkgadd and HP-UX depot formats.

• Write tutorial on learning TWW CPAM.
  • I am willing to help/assist a few persons to get familliar with TWW tools if they promise to write up what they learned in a tutorial article. As you can see I am really not good on documenation work.

• Integrate GNUstep developement process with TWW CPAM.

• More details TBA once I get familiar with mediawiki.

• Following paragrah can be deleted later.

 In this paragrah, I just want to make sure above out of nowhere text not treated as spam.
 My name is T.J. Yang(tj_yang at hotmail dot com), 
 I have been working as a system administator and I am interested 
 to bring the CPAM experience to work on this project. I promised myslef to digitalize the 
 compiling process when "Adam Fedor" was kindly answer my emails regarding to the compiling issues
 I econcuntered.

 Please email me if you have comment/questions. 
 For detail about TWW, please see http://www.thewrittenword.com.
 I have used CPAM tool at work to bring cross-platform open-source software support 
 nightmare under control. TWW CPAM tool is battle field tested ;)

 All the TWW tools and sources of their supported packages are GPL open-source compliant. 
 They are freely avaiable(ftp://support.thewrittenword.com) but support labor and binary packages are not.