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=== Overview === | === Overview === | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 16 February 2005
Overview
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 is CPAM
This is a project to automate the process of creating GNUstep environment for a perticular OS platform.
Why doingit
- 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
Notes from TJ Yang
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.