[lsb-discuss] LSB adoption acceleration proposal

Banginwar, Rajesh rajesh.banginwar at intel.com
Fri Sep 29 09:40:04 PDT 2006


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>To: Lepied, Frederic; lsb-discuss at freestandards.org
>Subject: Re: [lsb-discuss] LSB adoption acceleration proposal
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>>To accelerate the adoption of the LSB, we should promote its use
>>inside the open source community. This would demonstrate that the LSB
>>is viable solution with real life examples of how to implement it.
>>
>>The idea is to help projects that are already building binary packages
>>for some distros to build binary packages for the LSB instead. We
>>could then imagine to advertize such projects or to list them
>>somewhere on the LSB web pages.
>>
>>If some of you are interested, we could form a group to help 
>>open source projects adopt the LSB.
>
>It's not a bad idea, but it's not something that we've gained
>any traction with.  Project either seem not to see the need,
>or need more than the LSB has in it today, or either have
>been burned by or are using autopackage (either case may leave
>then unlikely to look at LSB). Even where we've done the
>work we haven't gotten people to adopt it (apache, samba,
>rsync, python, etc.)
>
>This is more in light of a "be aware of this" than something
>to say not to work on it.  
>
On the brighter side, I had a good discussion with one of the Inkscape
developer and he started looking at creating a lsb mode to their build
system. Haven't heard from him recently, so not sure what the status is.
So, some projects will get interested and most of them will actually
benefit at some level (be it binary distribution or just better
stability etc).

Thanks,

-Rajesh




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