[lsb-discuss] posted into a s390 ML -- a lament; was: zPDT usage

[Helbling, Douglas E]

Pardon my ignorance ... I've been a lurker here for ages, and a regular consumer of all your fine LSB works, but I am confused about the state of reality regarding this comment:

>and a footnote indicating some other distributions may pass 
>the tests (so a test seemingly looking for text strings, 
>rather than any needed library feature; shame shame) --- Is it _so_ 
>hard to look for the LSB features, and so let ALL LSB 
>compliant distributions run?
>
>As I recall, the pricing was hard to justify for the 
>Community distributions, such as CentOS, where I toi

Is there an existing "look for LSB features" test of some kind available now?  Is it something that could be extracted and reused easily as part of other commercial or open source software products/projects?  In the work I have done to construct supposedly LSB-compliant RPMs, I've added lsb component prerequisites to the RPM SPEC files.  But I would not mind a packaging-independent alternative (one that is also not Debianese).  All clues appreciated.

- Doug Helbling
 

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Subject: [lsb-discuss] posted into a s390 ML -- a lament; was: zPDT usage

I mentioned this in the call today ... no action item, just a 
bit of sadness as I posted it

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
To: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390 at vm.marist.edu>
Subject: zPDT usage

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:

> Anyone using or plan on using "IBM System z Personal Development Tool"
> (or ITC zPDT)?

> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247721.html?Open

hmmm; new text

>> Starting with the E41.18 release of zPDT (spring 2010) the 
>> 1090 installation process checks for specific Red Hat and 
>> openSUSE indicators and is not installable if one of these 
>> distributions is not detected. [4]

 	at page 24

and a footnote indicating some other distributions may pass 
the tests (so a test seemingly looking for text strings, 
rather than any needed library feature; shame shame) --- Is it _so_ 
hard to look for the LSB features, and so let ALL LSB 
compliant distributions run?

As I recall, the pricing was hard to justify for the 
Community distributions, such as CentOS, where I toil

-- Russ herrold
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