GNUstep Installation Process

GNUstep package creation automation project/process.

• What: This is a project to digitilize the process of creating GNUstep environment for a perticular OS platform to install/remove GNUstep easily thus encourge the deployment of GNUstep in corporate environment. And the pacakge creation process can be reproduced easliy by others with commands.

• Why: There are lots of time spent from experienced GNUsteppers to new GNUsteppers. Time should be spent on the GNUstep developement not on compling and packaging process.

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 me 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.

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 I just want to make above out of nohere text not treated as spam.
 My name is T.J. Yang(tjyang at hotmail dot com), 
 I have been working as a system administator for the past decade.
 I am intrested to work on this task. Please see the above plan to get this task done. 
 Please leave your comment here. or use the discussion(which I don't know how to use it yet). 
 
 For detail about TWW, please see http://www.thewrittenword.com, 
 I have used their CPAM at work to bring cross-platform open-source software support nightmare under control. 
 The TWW tools and sources of their supported packages are GPL open-source 
 free of charge but not their support labor.