Re: In talks w/ RedHat/Fedora for inclusion of GNUstep in their

[Richard Stonehouse]

Hi Greg,

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 05:04:45PM +0000, discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org wrote:

> I've been talking to some people at RedHat/Fedora about getting GNUstep 
> included in their distro.   What follows is an email from the community 
> development manager for the fedora project.   
> 
> His profile is here on their wiki: 
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg).
> 
> I would very much like to get packages built for Fedora so that they can be 
> included in the Extras packages.   This move will help increase GNUstep's 
> visibility in the community and will help is get more developers and users.
> 
> If there are any volunteers who would like to step up and help make this 
> happen, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Thanks, GJC
> --
> Gregory Casamento
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@redhat.com>
> To: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 11:25:22 AM
> Subject: Re: My contact information...
> 
> 
> Howdy.  :)
> 
> Useful and relevant information:
> 
> [ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras ]
> This is pretty much all the useful info on "how to get a package into 
> Fedora".
> 
> [ http://barcamp.org/FudconBoston2007 ]
> This is info on coming to the Fedora Users and Developers conference in 
> February.
> 
> Sorry for the terse email -- I've got about a bazillion to get through. 
> Welcome back to the post-vacation world, heh.
> 
> If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.
> 
> --g
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> 
> > Hey Greg,
> >
> > Writing you as per our discussion.   :)
> >
> > Later, GJC
> >
> > --
> > Gregory Casamento
> > ## GNUstep Chief Maintainer
> >
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
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> Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org
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I'd be very interested in getting involved in this.

As you may know, I've been building binary RPMs of GNUstep for some
time - first on Red Hat 8.0 and (since a change of distro) for SuSE
9.1 and then SuSE 9.3. These are available at:
    <URL:http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/gnustep-1.13/SuSE_9.3/>

In response to a recent enquiry from Olivier Kaloudoff, who would
like to build GNUstep RPMs for Centos 4.x on a x86_64 host, I've
agreed to provide the spec files etc - these are at:
<URL:http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/gnustep-1.13/SuSE_9.3-build/>

I haven't yet read the articles referred to in your mail (will do so
when I go online to send this), but would be delighted either to
participate or to make available the materials I already have.

I feel that one of the main obstacles to the adoption of GNUstep
software by users (as distinct from developers) is its lack of
availability, other than by the build-from-source route, and would be
keen to help counter this.

-- 
    Richard Stonehouse