[SDL] Installation of binary apps on linux

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Michel,

Monday, December 4, 2006, 10:18:15 AM, you wrote:

> You're planning to do exactly what I *dont* want any software to do: go
> against the standard installation procedures for my system (Linux debian).

OK, so everyone should run your distro of choice ? It isn't gonna
happen, hence the need for loki_install.

> The proper (and yes, painful) way is to make at least a deb for 
> 'stable'; possibly deb's for testing and for older debians (supporting
> the previous stable is now part of debian policy). And you make rpm's 
> for umpteen RedHat releases.

Now try putting that lot onto a CD and expecting the user to know
exactly what to do - and that's assuming your game fits onto the CD
because you've now got 4 copies of it on there.

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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com