Re: [libreoffice-projects] North American DVD project - as it stands now

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima <paulo.s.lima@gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2011/3/29 Webmaster for Lungstrom.com <webmaster@lungstrom.com>
>
> > Here is the state of the North American Community DVD project, as I see
> it.
> > If you go to the root index page for "libreoffice-na.us" you will have
> two
> > choices:
> >
> > All Supported Platforms
> > and
> > Windows Only
> >
> > The All Supported Platforms version of the English DVD is in the
> /English/
> > folder.  The Windows-only DVD is in the /English-Windows/ folder.
> >
> > The original idea for the English only DVD was to place the DVD into the
> > computer and the default folder of the DVD would have the index file
> along
> > with all the other usable HTML files in that default folder.  When there
> is
> > finally a Spanish or French versions, then you will get a default folder
> > that had only one HTML file, the index file, and the common folders with
> a
> > folder for each language that is supported by that DVD.
> <cut>
>
>
> > So please let me/us know what you think about the work being done.
> >
> > webmaster @ lungstrom.com
> > webmaster @ krackedpress.com
> >
> > Tim Lungstrom
> > New York State, USA
> >
> > Amazing. We had the same idea about the html file in the root folder.
>
> By the way, Brazilian community is almost done with ours. We are at 50% of
> Getting Started translations and going.
>
> We are also including a bash script to automatic install for linux users.
> That script detects the hw platform (32/64bits), the distro (Ubuntu,
> Debian,
> Fedora, Mandriva or Suse) and installs all required packages for that
> specific distro. I have tested in Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva. Just Suse
> and
> Debian are still missing and I expect to test it tomorrow.
>
> You can see these videos about how easy Linux installations have become:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/755426/instala_fedora.ogv
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/755426/instala_mandriva.ogv
>
> There's just one issue: once I'm not a developer, the script really works,
> but it also has a very ugly code. =D

Well, any script that tries to be cross-distro like that is going to be ugly
- such is the way of the world

> Maybe someone could read it and improve the code.

I expect that it could be reworked to instantiate an API, so that
distro-specific scripts  could be created. Absent other volunteers, I'm
happy to help.

It may be that bash is not a good choice for such a scripting task (that's
probably part of why it's ugly). Have you considered Python?

To be specific, though, what is the additional stuff that exists outside of
/opt?

Also, I have to ask what is the additional stuff that those distros aren't
adding that you feel should be included?


Cheers,
jec

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