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From: Michael S. <giz...@gm...> - 2009-08-27 18:10:12
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I'm going to agree with you OliverK. And I believe that's how John wants it to work, but he'll have to comment. I believe anything that can be used by multiple apps should be stored in CommonFiles. Currently, GTK for Pidgin is not, but I don't think there are (m)any apps that currently use GTK. I believe unless it HAS to be different, IE - use a set version of the shared library, it should be allowed to be stored in CommonFiles. But, on top of that, we need to have a solid base for it like John has done with Java before we can really require the app to use a commonfile location of the library. -Michael OliverK wrote: > I don't know if anyone is keeping up with the gVim thread, but I > posted about something that I thought the Release Team should handle > (or at least consider). > As I posted here, http://portableapps.com/node/15654#comment-126364, I > thought the the release team should formalize where the whole > Perl\Python\ruby, etc debate. > > *Perl* > I'll start with perl as I butcher it quit well. There's two Perl > releases in the forums currently: > Shawn Fauchers <http://portableapps.com/node/12595> > daBomb69 <http://portableapps.com/node/20482>'s > Shawn Faucher's version places the bin\lib\site of Perl in Common > Files. daBomb's goes in App\Perl for the binaries. Neither of these > will function with XChat's perl plugin, which requires ActiveState > ActivePerl. Technically a third version of perl. > Strawberry Perl also released a portable version > <http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.10.0.6-portable.zip>. > > *Python* > There's technically two version of Python in forums, although one has > been declared defunct by it's author. I can't really comment on this > one, since I'm not sure how exactly the whole thing works. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Personally, I'm evenly split on the issue for Perl, as well as > Python. I don't think Python support can be cut up the way Shawn did > Perl. I know Java runtimes are in CommonFiles, so I would think that > its appropriate for Python and Perl runtimes (along with others) to > also be there. However, that brings in the issues of asking > developers to change the way they are handling distributions, which I > don't think would be greeted with exactly open arms. > > I know I am not for doing multiple copies of everything by every app. > Even though flash drives are ridiculously cheap these days, I still > don't think we should squander that space that could be used for > something else. I think that it would also increase download sizes, > which is unnecessary. Especially if we have the something like gVim > being bundled with 5 different languages. > > Perhaps the only exception is something like XChat, but I don't think > that XChat is going to be released . . . In that case, we could > probably do addon installers of some sort. > > John, I don't know if you have a plan here or not. If you do, I'd > like to know. I think that the issue will become greater as more > IDE's and other things are (hopefully) introduced, and that it would > be nice to be dealt with now. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PortableApps-ReleaseTeam mailing list > Por...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/portableapps-releaseteam > |