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Getting Software Added to Unix Distributions?
suso asks: "I've been working on a set of programs called num-utils that I would eventually like to be considered for inclusion in some of the many free Un*x distributions (on the install CDs, etc). So my question is, how does one put their applications on the track to be included in the main distribution of Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, *BSD, and so on? Is this just something that is up to the maintainers or are there submission forms of some kind?"
unless, of course, SCO wins their lawsuit.
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Write another text editor app, then it will be sure to be included in the distro. Distros dont have enough text editors in them.
Now, the main question is does it do ogg ?
It doesn't matter about ogg. Once it reads mail, then it is feature complete.
Schrodinger's cat is either dead or really pissed off...
If so it will add itself eventually.
2. get the werd out. If people know about your package, it could solve a problem somewhere that would get it installed.
Somehow I get a feeling that he has that one covered. :)
This post is free (as in cheese in a mousetrap).
They will take care of it and will find evidences that your code is already illegally included in all major distributions, the kernel and the rest of the world. And they will offer a license for using it.
Make sure it can check your e-mail. No software is complete until it can check your e-mail.
He's trying to sour the batch! Don't let him near it! :) j/k
Thankfully in the Windows world I don't have to concern myself about getting included in "official" distributions... I prefer to distribute my software via self-propagating emails. ;)
Savannah (the GNU equivalent of Sourceforge) also carries a lot of near-dead projects.
Savannah, where GNUs go to die...?
"Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert
Searching...
[ Results for search key : num-utils ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-apps/num-utils
Latest version available: 0.3
Latest version installed: 0.3
Size of downloaded files: 28 kB
Homepage: http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/
Description: Set of programs for dealing with numbers from the command line
HAHA don't get so excited...just pulling your leg.
Just put a blatant plug for it in the form of a question on Slashdot.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
For real though, just post it on freshmeat and if people have an interest it'll get popular quick.
FiGZ.COM - A waste of perfectly good web space
For Solaris, once your util becomes an essential application used everyday by 99.9% of Solaris users, Sun and your good self can follow this procedure:
/opt/SUNWats/sun4u/bin/thiswillneverbeinyourPATH/p kg1921u9238/
- Use the Solaris package tools to create a package for your program, make the default install directory somethig sensible such as
- make sure the package requires a few libraries that will take a least a day of pain to install on to any Solaris box.
- Ensure to include a man page, avoid using words with less 5 syllables, refer to everything as n.
- now do nothing for roughly six years (more if the program is required for other popular applications).
- Once that is done, send the package to sunfreeware (because downloading endless packages from the designed-by-satan website is by far the quickest way of installing essential programs via a text based console).
- It can sometimes only take a few years from this point for Sun to include it on the Solaris CDs!
- Of course, they will first need to put it through the flag-randomiser to ensure no command line switch is the same as what it is for every other OS in known universe. It will also remove --help and -h, to avoid you having to do this yourself.
- Just think, by Solaris 27 (aka SunOS 2.9.1) you can see your package installed by default from a Solaris CD!
cjk
PS remember, if your program involves text editing, ensure it implicitly uses ed, lord knows what confusion it will course otherwise.
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