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Re: GSoC 2008: Project Proposal - Common Application Installer
From: |
Dave Hall |
Subject: |
Re: GSoC 2008: Project Proposal - Common Application Installer |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:34:11 +1100 |
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:43 +0530, Ibraheem P wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> There is an existing software called 'Alien' that does this facility ,
> but there are some limitations for this. It just converts one format
> to another, see this http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
You might also want to add PackageKit to your list - included in Fedora
9 beta. For more info see http://www.packagekit.org
> Also advice me that to which organization should I propose this
> project.
>
Sorry I can't help you with that. Maybe one of the distros
participating in GSoC might be interested.
Cheers
Dave
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:33 PM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Ibraheem P
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Dear Sir,
>
> Hello! I am James.
>
> > I'm Ibraheem from India, a Computer Science and
> Engineering student.I
> > would like to participate in GSoC 2008. I've an idea about
> developing a
> > software called 'Common Application Installer' for Linux
> which facilitate
>
>
> Applications are installed on operating systems, but Linux is
> just a
> kernel. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for a
> longer
> discussion of this issue.
>
>
> > installation of packages in various formats in almost all
> Linux
> > distributions. It includes the installation of Linux
> Standard Base (LSB),
> > RPM, DEB, Solaris (PKG) , Stampede (SLP), Slackware ( TGZ )
> etc and also
> > facilitate installation from source packages (./configure,
> make, make
> > install).
>
>
> Are you aware of any existing software that does this already?
>
>
> > It can develop with a GUI to make easy installation of
> packages
> > for the user. I am proficient in C, C++,Java, Qt Designer,
> Gtk+ etc.
>
>
> James.
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Ibraheem
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